HMS Chesapeake (1855)

HMS Chesapeake (1855)

HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men. [ [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=77 Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake] ] She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth. [ [http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/southsea/chesapeake.htm Chesapeake Memorial] ] She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.

Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served on her as an acting lieutenant in 1860. [Citation | first = Ruddock F. | last = Mackay | author-link = Ruddock F. Mackay | title = Fisher of Kilverstone | place = London | pages = 13-28 | publisher = | year = 1973 | doi = | isbn = ]

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