HMS Arethusa (1849)
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Name: | HMS Arethusa |
Ordered: | 19 February 1844 |
Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down: | 30 March 1846 |
Launched: | 20 June 1849 |
Completed: | 20 March 1850 |
Reclassified: | Training ship in 1874 |
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General characteristics as sailing frigate | |
Class & type: | Constance-class frigate |
Tons burthen: | 2,125 75⁄94 bm |
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Beam: | 52 ft 8 in (16.05 m) |
Depth of hold: | 16 ft 3 in (4.95 m) |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Crew: | 500 |
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General characteristics as screw frigate | |
Displacement: | 3,708 tons |
Tons burthen: | 3,142 33⁄94 bm |
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Beam: | 52 ft 8 in (16.05 m) |
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Depth of hold: | 17 ft 1 in (5.21 m) |
Installed power: | 3,165 ihp (2,360 kW) |
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Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Speed: | 11.704 knots (21.68 km/h; 13.47 mph) |
Crew: | 525 |
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HMS Arethusa was a 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1849. She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861 and became a training ship in 1874 and finally scrapped in 1933 at Woolwich. Arethusa was an all-wooden construction, and the last major ship of the Royal Navy to enter an engagement under sail power only (1854, during the Crimean War).[1]
The ship's figurehead, originally carved by the Hellyer family, has been preserved and remains on exhibit at Upnor.[2]
Service
Arethusa saw service during the Crimean War, with battles at Odessa and Sevastopol. At the time of the battle in 1854, was Capt. William Robert Mends.[3]
Arethusa Venture Centre
Once decommissioned, the ship was passed from the Royal Navy to a charity called 'Shaftesbury Homes'. Who provide refuge and teach children who had been sleeping rough on the streets of London. It trained those young boys for a career in the Royal Navy or Merchant Navy. After the ship was broken up and onshore base was built as the Arethuse Venture Centre, which provides residential school trips and educational visits for young people throughout the UK. It also offers outdoor challenges and adventures, to aid confidence and self-esteem in young people.[4]
References
- ↑ The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, p. 174, Oxford University Press, 2002
- ↑ "Commissions". Maritima Woodcarving.
- ↑ "William Loney RN - Background". Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ↑ Hughes, Rebecca (29 May 2013). "Figurehead of the war ship Arethusa in Lower Upnor has been restored after a wasp attack". kentonline.co.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
External links
- A short extract from Lieut Henry Rogers Journal while he was on HMS Arethusa
- A list of HMS Arethusa's crew who were killed and wounded during the bombardment of Sebastopol in 1854