HMS Victor Emmanuel (1855)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Repulse.

Victor Emmanuel, receiving-ship. British squadron China Station, 1897

History
United Kingdom
Name| HMS Victor Emmanuel
Ordered| 4 April 1851
Builder|

* Pembroke Dockyard
* Machinery by Maudslay, Sons & Field

Laid down| 16 May 1853
Launched| 27 February 1855
Commissioned| 9 September 1858
Renamed|

* Launched as HMS Repulse
* Renamed HMS Victor Emmanuel on 7 December 1855

Reclassified| Hospital and receiving ship from 1873
Fate| Sold in 1899
General characteristics [1]
Class and type| Agamemnon-class ship of the line
Tons burthen| 3,074 bm
Length| 230 ft (70 m) (gundeck)
Beam| 55 ft 4 in (16.87 m)
Depth of hold| 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Propulsion|

* Sails
* 2-cyl. horizontal single expansion engines
* Single screw
* 600 nhp
* 2,424 ihp

Sail plan| Full-rigged ship
Speed| 10.674kts (machinery)
Complement| 860
Armament|

* (as planned) 80 guns:
* Lower deck: 36 × 8in guns
* Upper gundeck: 34 × 32pdrs + 2 × 8in guns
* Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 2 × 8in + 8 × 10in
* (as completed) 91 guns:
* Lower deck: 36 × 8in guns
* Upper gundeck: 34 × 32pdrs
* Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 20 × 32pdrs + 1 × 68 pdr

HMS Victor Emmanuel was a screw-propelled 91-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, originally launched as HMS Repulse, but renamed shortly after being launched.

## Construction and commissioning

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Victor Emmanuel was an Agamemnon-class ship of the line, a class originally designed as 80-gun sailing two-deckers.[2] They were re-ordered as screw ships in 1849, and Victor Emmanuel was duly reclassified as a 91-gun ship on 26 March 1852.[2] She was built and launched on 27 February 1855 under the name HMS Repulse, but was renamed Victor Emmanuel on 7 December 1855, in honour of Victor Emmanuel after he visited the ship.[3] She cost a total of £158,086, with £87,597 spent on her hull, and a further £35,588 spent on her machinery.[2]

## Career

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The Victor Emmanuel Hospital Ship; doctors checking on their patients Victor Emmanuel Hospital Ship; patients relaxing along bird cage walk

She served in the English Channel, the Mediterranean, and off the African coast during the Anglo-Ashanti wars.[3] On 4 May 1861, Victor Emmanuel ran aground on the Leufchino Shoal, in the Mediterranean Sea. Repairs cost £69.[4] She was assigned to Hong Kong to replace HMS Princess Charlotte and used as a hospital and receiving ship there from 1873. She was sold in 1899.[2]

## Notes

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1. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 187.
2. ^ a b c d Lyon & Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List. pp. Chap. 5, pp. 5–6.
3. ^ a b Loney. "mid-Victorian RN vessels - Victor Emmanuel".
4. ^ "Naval Disasters Since 1860". Hampshire Telegraph. No. 4250\. Portsmouth. 10 May 1873.

## References

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* 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.
* Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9
* Victor Emmanuel's career

## External links

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* Media related to HMS Victor Emmanuel (ship, 1855) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by

HMS Princess Charlotte

|  Royal Navy receiving ship in Hong Kong
1873-1899  | Succeeded by

HMS Tamar

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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1861

Shipwrecks|

* 20 Feb: Enchantress
* 5 Mar: Monarch
* 8 Apr: Witchcraft
* 20 Apr: USS Columbus, USS Delaware, USS Germantown, USS Merrimack, USS Pennsylvania, USS Plymouth, USS Raritan
* 21 Apr: USS Columbia, USS Dolphin, USS New York
* 1 Jun: Lord Hungerford
* 4 Jun: Canadian
* 3 Jul: Victory
* 28 Jul: Petrel
* 2 Aug: Stag Hound
* 3 Aug: HMS Driver
* 18 Aug: Jefferson Davis
* 1 Oct: Infernal
* 5 Oct: CSS Venus
* 11 Oct: USS South Wind
* 5 Nov: Prony
* 7 Nov: CSS Winslow
* 10 Nov: Keystone State
* 14 Nov: SMS Amazone
* 23 Nov: CSS Tuscarora
* 5 Dec: USS Phoenix
* 8 Dec: USS Cossack, USS Peter Demill, USS South America
* 19-20 Dec: USS Amazon, USS Garland, USS Rebecca Sims, USS Tenedos
* 20 Dec: USS American, USS Archer, USS Herald, USS L. C. Richmond, USS Leonidas
* 21 Dec: USS Kensington
* 29 Dec: HMS Conqueror
* December (unknown date): USS Lewis, USS Maria Theresa, USS Robin Hood
* Unknown date: Glentanner

Other incidents|

* 9 Jan: HMS Cossack
* 15 Jan: Anna Paulowna
* 4 Mar: Marco Polo
* 12 Mar: Black Prince
* 20-21 Apr: Nightingale
* 24 Apr: Defence
* 25 Apr: Syren
* 4 May: HMS Victor Emmanuel
* 13-14 May: North Star
* 19 May: USS Baltimore
* 10 Jun: HMS Hydra
* 6 Jul: HMS Aboukir
* August (unknown date): HMS Hecate, HMS Imperieuse
* 22 Oct: HMS Virago
* 8 Nov: Trent (Trent Affair)
* Unknown date: Challenger, Surprise

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