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| Name | Chesapeake (1855) | Explanation | |
| Type | Frigate | ||
| Launched | 27 September 1855 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 212 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 515 |
| Builders measure | 2377 tons | ||
| Displacement | 3334 tons | ||
| Guns | 51 | ||
| Fate | 1867 | Last in commission | 1861 |
| Class | Forte | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/89 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 27 September 1855 | Launched at Chatham Dockyard. | ||
| 20 July 1857 - May 1858 | Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham) by Commodore Rundle Burges Watson, East Indies and China, until resigning because of ill health | ||
| 31 July 1858 - 27 December 1858 | Commanded by Acting Captain George Henry Parkin, East Indies and China | ||
| 30 October 1858 - 22 April 1859 | Commanded by Commodore Harry Edmond Edgell, East Indies and China | ||
| 15 February 1859 - 18 May 1861 | Commanded by Captain George Ommaney Willes, flagship of James Hope, East Indies and China (including later part of 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 17 May 1861 - 17 October 1861 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Rochfort Maguire, flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones, returning from East Indies | ||
| 1867 | Sold to Castle and Beach for breaking up at Charlton | ||
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