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| Name | Rodney (1833) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | Type | Two-decker |
| Launched (Sail) | 18 June 1833 | Converted to screw | 11 January 1860 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 214 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 850 |
| Builders measure | 2590 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 2590 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 4375 tons | |
| Guns | 92 | Guns (as screw) | 91 |
| Fate | 1884 | Last in commission | 1870 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Rodney | |
| Ships book | ADM 135/404 | ||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 18 June 1833 | Launched as 2nd rate sailing ship at Pembroke Dockyard. | ||
| 29 August 1835 - 12 May 1840 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Hyde Parker, Mediterranean | ||
| 13 May 1840 - 16 October 1843 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Robert Maunsell, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | ||
| 4 February 1845 - 8 March 1849 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Edward Collier, Channel squadron (and 1845 experimental squadron), then Mediterranean | ||
| 6 August 1851 - 22 November 1854 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain Charles Graham, Mediterranean, and Black Sea during the Russian War, until invalided | ||
| 22 November 1854 - 21 July 1855 | Commanded by Captain George St Vincent King, Mediterranean | ||
| 21 July 1855 - January 1856 | Commanded by Captain Henry Keppel, Mediterranean, in command of the Naval Brigade ashore in the Crimea during the Russian War | ||
| 24 January 1856 - 20 August 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain George Knyvett Wilson, to the Black Sea to bring home troops after the Russian War | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 11 January 1860 | Completed as screw at Portsmouth Dockyard. | ||
| 21 January 1867 - 27 April 1870 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage, flagship of Vice-Admiral Henry Keppel, China | ||
| 27 April 1870 | The last unarmoured wooden battleship in full commission | ||
| February 1884 | Broken up | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| (various) | this gets replaced | ||
| (various) | this gets replaced | ||
| (various) | this gets replaced | ||
| We 21 November 1855 | SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Indus, Captain Soy, with the India and Mediterranean mails, we have dates from Alexandria to November 6, Malta 10, and Gibraltar 15.The Indus brings 52 passengers, and on freight one package of specie, value 100l., and a cargo, consisting of 84 boxes of almonds, 230 boxes of raisins, 47 barrels and six boxes of dates, 10 cases of musk, one case of pictures, two cases of cigars, 718 bales of silk, eight bales of wool, two hogsheads of wine, 50 cases of silk, 30 packages of samples, 21 cases of shawls, 17 packages of effects, nine packages of elephants' teeth, one case of tortoiseshell, and 80 packages of general merchandise. Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, London, Rodney, Wasp, Niger, Vulcan, Shearwater, and Ceylon, were at Malta. | ||
| We 12 March 1856 | The following ships and vessels are fitting out and refitting at Portsmouth:- The Victor Emmanuel, screw, 91, will be ready for trial of her machinery at moorings on the 15th instant., and ready for the pendant by the 15th of April. The Rodney, 92, depôtship, will be ready for service on the 29th inst. The Shannon, 51, new screw frigate, will he fitted with her machinery, and ready for trial at moorings on the 15th inst., and ready for commission by about the 31st. The Perseverance steam troopship will be ready for service again by this day or to-morrow. The Vulcan steam troopship will be refitted by the 20th inst. The Centaur paddle-frigate is refitted in the shipwright department, and will be out of the hands of the chief engineer about the 28th inst. The Basilisk paddlewheel sloop will be refitted and ready for sea again by the end of the present month. The Transit steam troopship has repaired what defects she had, and is ready to embark. The Algiers, 91, will be refitted and ready for sea again by about the 25th inst. The Resistance sailing storeship will be refitted by the 22d inst. The Urgent screw troopship will be refitted in her machinery and ready for service by about the middle of next month. The new screw sloop Flying Fish, 6, will be out of hand of the artificers by the end of this week. The Pioneer, 6, will be out of hand by about the 20th inst. The Fury, 6, paddlesloop, has refitted, and is out of the shipwrights' hands. | ||
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