HMS Chesapeake (1855)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Chesapeake
Launched:	1855-09-12
Fate:	Broken up, 1867, Charlton
General characteristics
Class and type:	Forte class
Displacement:	1,610 tons
Tons burthen:	1,111 tons
Length:	235 ft (72 m)
Propulsion:	screw
Complement:	510
Armament:	51 guns

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

Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.

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