HMS collingwoodCollingwood, 1841-1867
The collingwoodCollingwood was a Royal Navy third-rate sailing ship.1 It was 58 m long, 17 m wide and carried 80 guns.2 This wooden two-deck ship housed 750 men, and from 1844-48 it was the flagship of
Rear-Admiral George Francis Seymour in the Pacific.3
Both this document and this despatch mention the collingwoodCollingwood, and refer to its anchorage in Valparaiso.
- 1. Peter Davis, HMS Collingwood, William Loney RN—Ships.
- 2. J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy (Devon: David & Charles: Newton Abbot, 1969), 1:128.
- 3. Peter Davis, HMS Collingwood, William Loney RN—Ships.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents