HMS Chesapeake (1855)

Frigate of the Royal Navy

Black-list men, mustering for water grog on HMS Chesapeake in 1858

HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men.^[1] She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth.^[2] She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.

Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.^[3]

Notes

1. Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake
2. Chesapeake Memorial Archived 16 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
3. Mackay, Ruddock F. (1973), Fisher of Kilverstone, London: Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 13–28

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

External links

• Media related to HMS Chesapeake (ship, 1855) at Wikimedia Commons