HMS Marlborough (1855)

Painting of HMS Marlborough off Gibraltar, by Henry J. Morgan
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Marlborough
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched	31 July 1855
Renamed	Vernon II in March 1904
Reclassified	Training ship in 1878
Fate	Sold October 1924 Sank, 28 November 1924
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	131-gun first-rate wooden steam battleship
Displacement	6,065 tons
Tons burthen	4,000 18/94 bm
Length	245 ft 6 in (74.83 m)
Beam	61 ft 2.5 in (18.656 m)
Draught	21 ft 9 in (6.63 m)
Propulsion	Sails and screw single hoisting screw, 800 nhp Maudslay 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine, 2684 ihp
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	11.886 kt (steam only)[2]
Complement	1,100
Armament	Gundeck: 10 × 8in (65cwt), 26 × 32pdrs (56cwt) Middle deck: 6 × 8in (65cwt), 30 × 32pdrs (56cwt) Upper deck: 38 × 32pdrs (42cwt) Quarterdeck & Forecastle: 20 × 32pdrs (25cwt), 1 × 68pdr (95cwt)

HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131-gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line (with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks, and launched as a wooden steam battleship.