HMS Renown (1857)
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The HMS Renown was a second rank 91-gun ship of the line of the British Royal Navy , which served from 1870 in the Navy of the North German Confederation and then in the Imperial Navy as an artillery training ship.
The ship was on 28 March 1857 the Chatham Dockyards from the stack . It was a two-decker 75 m long, 17 m wide, 6.3 m draft and about 5,500 ts water displacement. The ship was made of oak in a Kraweel design and rigged as a three-masted full ship . The sail area was 4,500 square meters. The ship also had an expansion steam engine and screw drive and could thus reach a top speed of 10 knots. The guns came from the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich . The crew consisted of 42 officers and 477 men.
The ship entered service on November 21, 1857 in Sheerness under the command of Captain Arthur Forbes. It served from June 24, 1858, first in the newly formed Channel Squadron (English Channel Squadron) of Rear Admiral Charles Fremantle and from May 1859 under Vice Admiral Arthur Fanshawe with the Mediterranean Fleet in Malta . The Renown was Fremantle's flagship from August 7 to 10, 1858 . On September 25, 1861, the ship was decommissioned in Plymouth .
SMS Renown
On March 24, 1870, the outdated ship was bought by the North German Confederation (ie de facto by the Prussian Navy ) and converted into an artillery training ship. The Renown was thus the only wooden ship of the line that the Navy of the North German Confederation and the Imperial Navy ever owned. The first in command was the future Admiral Alexander von Monts . The armament now consisted of a cannon caliber 24 cm, a cannon caliber 21 cm and 16 cannons caliber 15 cm. This was later changed: in 1880 there were a total of six rifled guns made of cast steel on the port side: two 15-cm, two 17-cm, one 21-cm and one 24-cm gun. On the starboard side there were also six cannons, which were still used for general artillery training but no longer for firing; these were mostly old muzzle loaders with primitive reverse brakes. The ship only had a small permanent crew and, since it no longer had its own engine, had to be towed into position by a tug or its tender.
After the artillery training ship SMS Mars, launched in 1877 and completed in 1881, came to the fleet, the Renown was decommissioned on March 31, 1881, removed from the list of warships on September 30, 1881 and scrapped in Hamburg in 1892.
Others
In the Museum für Meereskunde (Berlin) there was a full model of the ship under the signature MfM R II B58 , with the flag of the Imperial Navy. The whereabouts of the model is unknown.
See also
- HMS Renown (other ships of the same name)