| Name | Chesapeake | Explanation |
| Type | Frigate |
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| Launched | 27 September 1855 |
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| Hull | Wooden |
Length | 212 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw |
Men | 515 |
| Builders measure | 2377 tons |
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| Displacement | 3334 tons |
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| Guns | 51 |
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| Fate | 1867 |
Last in commission | 1861 |
| Class | |
Class (as screw) | Forte |
| Ships book | ADM 135/89 |
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| Career |
| Date | Event |
| 27 September 1855 | Launched at Chatham Dockyard. |
| 21 July 1857 | Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham) by Commodore Rundle Burges Watson, East Indies and China |
27 December 1858
- 16 February 1859 | Commanded by Commodore Harry Edmond Edgell, East Indies and China |
16 February 1859
- 16 April 1861 | Commanded by Captain George Ommaney Willes, flagship of Rear-Admiral James Hope, East Indies and China (including later part of 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
16 April 1861
- 17 October 1861 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Rochford Maguire, flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones, returning from East Indies |
| 1867 | Sold to Castle and Beach for breaking up at Charlton |
| Extracts from the Times newspaper |
| Date | Extract |
| Ma 28 September 1857 | The gear for the six sail of the line ordered to be prepared, as reported by our Portsmouth correspondent some time since, is nearly complete. The ships thus believed to be intended for the Channel fleet of next year are the following:-These, it is believed, will be the chief members of any Channel squadron commissioned, and the necessity for recruiting in the navy has became as necessary as in the army, for the Chesapeake left on Thursday without her full complement, and the Ganges, 84, flagship of Rear-Admiral Baynes, C.B., for the Pacific command, is hors de combat at Spithead from, the same cause. Men won't enter, and boys are not very likely to be picked up if the 2 l. for their outfit is insisted upon as necessary to insure entry if found otherwise qualified. |
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