HMS Bristol (1861)
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| History |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: |
HMS Bristol |
| Builder: |
Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down: |
16 September 1859 |
| Launched: |
12 February 1861 |
| Completed: |
October 1865 |
| Fate: |
Sold for breaking up December 1883 |
| General characteristics |
| Class & type: |
Bristol-class frigate |
| Displacement: |
3,996 long tons (4,060 t) |
| Length: |
250 ft (76.2 m) |
| Beam: |
52 ft (15.8 m) |
| Draught: |
22 ft 5 in (6.8 m) |
| Installed power: |
2,088 ihp (1,557 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
1 shaft, 1 Steam engine |
| Speed: |
11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: |
550-600 |
| Armament: |
- Thirty 8-inch (203 mm) muzzle-loading smoothbore guns
- Twenty 32-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore guns
- One 68-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore gun
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HMS Bristol was a Bristol-class wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy.
'An analysis of ship air and its effect'[1] was made and reported during a four months' voyage (July to November 1871) from the Cape of Good Hope to England. This gives an insite to the conditions on board and concludes 'Seamen, as a body, are neither healthy nor long lived, but the reverse. This is proved, first, by their low average age, said to be 33'. A description of the ship layout is also given, the upper tier contained the Main deck, Upper, Half deck, Study, Mess room & Main deck cabins. Middle tier contained the Lower deck, Steerage, Ward room, Chest (cadets' sleeping)room and steerage cabins Do., & Pantry. The Lowest tier Stokehole, Engine room, Screw alley, Cockpit, Store room & Cells. It also states the ship had four boilers.
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