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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Constance. John Turnstall Haverfield`s painting of Constance in Esquimalt Harbour 1848 Career (UK) Name: HMS Constance Ordered: 31 March 1843 Builder: Pembroke Dockyard Laid down: October 1843 Launched: 12 March 1846 Completed: 28 June 1846 Reclassified: Converted to screw frigate between 1860-62 at Devonport Dockyard Refit: 1862 Fate: Sold for breaking up on 23 January 1875 General characteristics As ordered Class and type: 50-gun Constance-class fourth-rate frigate Tons burthen: 2,125 75/94 bm Length: 180 ft (54.9 m) (overall) 146 ft 10.25 in (44.8 m) (keel) Beam: 52 ft 8 in (16.1 m) Depth of hold: 16 ft 3 in (4.95 m) Propulsion: Sails Sail plan: Full rigged ship Complement: 500 Armament: Upper deck: 28 x 32pdrs (10 x 8in/68pdr shell guns later replaced 10 x 32pdrs) Quarter deck: 14 x 32pdrs Forecastle: 8 x 32pdrs General characteristics After 1860-62 refit Class and type: 50-gun fourth-rate frigate Displacement: 3,786 tons Tons burthen: 3,212 bm Length: 253 ft 11 in (77.4 m) (overall) 219 ft 2 in (66.8 m) (keel) Beam: 53 ft (16.2 m) Draught: 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) (forward) 23 ft 7 in (7.19 m) (aft) Depth of hold: 17 ft 1 in (5.21 m) Propulsion: Sails 6-cyl. trunked compound engine, with surface condensers 500 nhp 2,301 ihp = 10.779kts. Sail plan: Full rigged ship HMS Constance was a 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1846. She had a tonnage of 2,132 and was designed with a V-shaped by Sir William Symonds[1] she was also one of the last class of frigates designed by him.[2] On her shakedown voyage from England to Valparaiso she rounded Cape Horn in good trim, her captain for this voyage being Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, who commented "I think her a good sea boat, and a fine man of war". On the voyage she encountered a Hurricane at 62o south. Walker wrote that "nothing could have exceeded the way she went over it, not even straining a rope yarn".[3] In August 1848 her captain George Courtenay, for whom the town of Courtenay was named,[4] led 250 sailors and marines from Fort Victoria to try and intimidate the Indians.[5] Her crew and officers were Quarantined aboard whilst berthed at Port Royal on 26 October 1867 during an outbreak of Yellow Fever[6] In 1848 she became the first Royal Naval vessel to use Esquimalt as her base.[7] In 1862 she was converted to screw propulsion using a compound engine[8] designed by Randolph & Elder.[9] She was the first Royal Naval ship to be fitted with this class of engine, and won a race against two frigates from Plymouth to Madeira in 1865.[10] References ^ Mariner's pp 64–68 ^ Brock p26 ^ Sharp p698 ^ Akrigg p54 ^ Gough p46 ^ times and gazette p467 ^ Akrigg p52 ^ Rankine p445 ^ Gardiner p174 ^ The Race p90 Bibliography Brock, P. W. Greenhill, Basil Steam and sail: in Britain and North America: 80 photographs mainly from the National Maritime Museum depicting British and North American naval, merchant, and special purpose vessels of the period of transition from sail to steam Pyne Press, 1973 Sharp, James A. Memoirs of the life and services of Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts 1858 Rankine, William John Macquorn Miscellaneous Scientific Papers: From the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and Other Scientific and Philosophical Societies Adamant. 4 June 2001. ISBN 978-1402171925 Gardiner, Robert Steam, steel & shellfire: the steam warship, 1815-1905 Conway Maritime Press. 20 June 2001. ISBN 978-0851775647 Akrigg, G. P. V. Akrigg, Helen B. British Columbia place names University of British Columbia Press; 3rd edition. 31 December 1997. ISBN 978-0774806374 Gough, Barry M. Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890 University of British Columbia Press. 1st edition. 1 January 1984. ISBN 78-0774801751 Mariner's mirror The Mariner's mirror, Volume 73 Society for Nautical Research., 1987 The medical times and gazette John Churchill & Sons. 1867 The Race The annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Henry Sotheran & Co. 1871.