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data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><span style="padding-left:1em"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a></span></th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td>HMS <i>Constance</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Ordered</td><td>31 March 1843</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Builder</td><td><a href="/wiki/Pembroke_Dockyard" title="Pembroke Dockyard">Pembroke Dockyard</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Laid down</td><td>October 1843</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>12 May 1846</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>28 June 1846</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Reclassified</td><td>Converted to screw frigate between 1860-62 at <a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">Devonport Dockyard</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Refit</td><td>1862</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Sold for breaking up on 23 January 1875</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics As ordered</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td>50-gun <a href="/w/index.php?title=Constance_class_frigate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constance class frigate (page does not exist)"><i>Constance</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Fourth-rate" title="Fourth-rate">fourth-rate</a> <a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Tons burthen</td><td>2,125 75/94 <a href="/wiki/Builder%27s_Old_Measurement" title="Builder's Old Measurement">bm</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">180 ft (54.9 m) (overall)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">146 ft 10.25 in (44.8 m) (keel)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>52 ft 8 in (16.1 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Depth of hold</td><td>16 ft 3 in (4.95 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>Sails</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Sail plan</td><td><a href="/wiki/Full-rigged_ship" title="Full-rigged ship">Full-rigged ship</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>500</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Upper deck: 28 × 32-pdrs (10 × 8 in/68-pdr shell guns later replaced 10 × 32-pdrs)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Quarterdeck: 14 × 32-pdrs</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Forecastle: 8 × 32-pdrs</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics After 1860-62 refit</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td>50-gun <a href="/wiki/Fourth-rate" title="Fourth-rate">fourth-rate</a> <a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>3,786 tons</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Tons burthen</td><td>3,212 <a href="/wiki/Builder%27s_Old_Measurement" title="Builder's Old Measurement">bm</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">253 ft 11 in (77.4 m) (overall)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">219 ft 2 in (66.8 m) (keel)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>53 ft (16.2 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) (forward)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">23 ft 7 in (7.19 m) (aft)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Depth of hold</td><td>17 ft 1 in (5.21 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Sails</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">6-cyl. <a href="/wiki/Compound_steam_engine" title="Compound steam engine">compound</a> <a href="/wiki/Trunk_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Trunk engine">trunk engine</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Surface_condenser" title="Surface condenser">surface condensers</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">500 nhp</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2,301 ihp = 10.779kts.</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Sail plan</td><td><a href="/wiki/Full-rigged_ship" title="Full-rigged ship">Full-rigged ship</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:H.M.S._Constance,_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/H.M.S._Constance%2C_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg/220px-H.M.S._Constance%2C_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/H.M.S._Constance%2C_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg/330px-H.M.S._Constance%2C_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/H.M.S._Constance%2C_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg/440px-H.M.S._Constance%2C_50_guns..._joining_the_Experimental_Squadron_RMG_PY0935.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1028" /></a><figcaption><i>Constance</i> joining the Experimental Squadron, from a sketch by one of her officers' Lieut. J.F.B. Wainwright circa 1846-9</figcaption></figure> <p><b>HMS <i>Constance</i></b> was a 50-gun <a href="/wiki/Fourth-rate" title="Fourth-rate">fourth-rate</a> <a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> launched on 12 May 1846. She had a tonnage of 2,132 and was designed with a V-shaped hull by <a href="/wiki/William_Symonds" title="William Symonds">Sir William Symonds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Mariner's_mirror_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Mariner's_mirror-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PP1848_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PP1848-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also one of the last class of frigates designed by him.<sup id="cite_ref-Brock,_P._W._&_Greenhill,_Basil_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brock,_P._W._&_Greenhill,_Basil-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On her shakedown voyage from England to <a href="/wiki/Valparaiso" class="mw-redirect" title="Valparaiso">Valparaiso</a> she rounded <a href="/wiki/Cape_Horn" title="Cape Horn">Cape Horn</a> in good trim, her captain for this voyage being <a href="/wiki/Baldwin_Wake_Walker" title="Baldwin Wake Walker">Sir Baldwin Wake Walker</a>, who commented "I think her a good sea boat, and a fine man of war". On the voyage she encountered a <a href="/wiki/Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane">hurricane</a> at 62° south. Walker wrote that "nothing could have exceeded the way she went over it, not even straining a rope yarn".<sup id="cite_ref-Sharp,_James_A._4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharp,_James_A.-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 1848, her captain <a href="/w/index.php?title=George_William_Courtenay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George William Courtenay (page does not exist)">George William Courtenay</a>, for whom the town of <a href="/wiki/Courtenay,_British_Columbia" title="Courtenay, British Columbia">Courtenay</a> was named,<sup id="cite_ref-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> led 250 sailors and marines from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Victoria_(British_Columbia)" title="Fort Victoria (British Columbia)">Fort Victoria</a> to try to intimidate the Indians.<sup id="cite_ref-Gough,_Barry_M._6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gough,_Barry_M.-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg/220px-HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg/330px-HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg/440px-HMS_Constance_in_1848.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="372" /></a><figcaption><i>Constance</i> in <a href="/wiki/Esquimalt" title="Esquimalt">Esquimalt</a> Harbour 1848, a sketch by John Turnstall Haverfield, a marine on board ship</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1848, she became the first Royal Naval vessel to use <a href="/wiki/Esquimalt" title="Esquimalt">Esquimalt</a> as her base.<sup id="cite_ref-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka,_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch,%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News,_1860.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka%2C_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch%2C%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News%2C_1860.jpg/220px-%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka%2C_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch%2C%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News%2C_1860.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka%2C_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch%2C%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News%2C_1860.jpg/330px-%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka%2C_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch%2C%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News%2C_1860.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka%2C_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch%2C%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News%2C_1860.jpg/440px-%22The_Temple_Fort_of_Dwarka%2C_at_the_entrance_of_the_Gulf_of_Kutch%2C%22_from_the_Illustrated_London_News%2C_1860.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1057" data-file-height="588" /></a><figcaption><i>Constance</i> (far left) in operations at "The Temple Fort of Dwarka, at the entrance of the Gulf of Kutch," from the Illustrated London News, 1860</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1859, she was involved in the bombardment of <a href="/wiki/Dwarka" title="Dwarka">Dwarka</a> in the state of Gujarat in north western India. </p><p>In 1862, she was converted to <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">screw propulsion</a> using a <a href="/wiki/Compound_steam_engine" title="Compound steam engine">compound steam engine</a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankine,_William_John_Macquorn_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankine,_William_John_Macquorn-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> designed by <a href="/wiki/Randolph_%26_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Randolph & Elder">Randolph & Elder</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gardiner,_Robert_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gardiner,_Robert-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was the first Royal Naval ship to be fitted with this class of engine, and won a race against two frigates from <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a> to <a href="/wiki/Madeira" title="Madeira">Madeira</a> in 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Race_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Race-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her crew and officers were <a href="/wiki/Quarantined" class="mw-redirect" title="Quarantined">quarantined</a> aboard whilst berthed at <a href="/wiki/Port_Royal" title="Port Royal">Port Royal</a> on 26 October 1867 during an outbreak of <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Fever" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow Fever">Yellow Fever</a><sup id="cite_ref-times_and_gazette_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times_and_gazette-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Constance_(1846)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-The_Mariner's_mirror-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-The_Mariner's_mirror_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mariner's pp 64–68</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PP1848-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PP1848_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation report cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CX4SAAAAYAAJ">Reports from Committees: Eighteen volumes. -(15. part II.)- Navy, Army and Ordnance Estimates: Part II</a> (Report). London: House of Commons. 1848. p. 859.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=report&rft.btitle=Reports+from+Committees%3A+Eighteen+volumes.+-%2815.+part+II.%29-+Navy%2C+Army+and+Ordnance+Estimates%3A+Part+II&rft.place=London&rft.pages=859&rft.pub=House+of+Commons&rft.date=1848&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCX4SAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHMS+Constance+%281846%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brock,_P._W._&_Greenhill,_Basil-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Brock,_P._W._&_Greenhill,_Basil_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brock p26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sharp,_James_A.-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sharp,_James_A._4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sharp p698</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._1-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._1_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Akrigg p54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gough,_Barry_M.-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Gough,_Barry_M._6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gough p46</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._2-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Akrigg,_G._P._V._Akrigg,_Helen_B._2_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Akrigg p52</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rankine,_William_John_Macquorn-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Rankine,_William_John_Macquorn_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rankine p445</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gardiner,_Robert-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Gardiner,_Robert_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gardiner p174</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Race-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-The_Race_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Race p90</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-times_and_gazette-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-times_and_gazette_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">times and gazette p467</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Constance_(1846)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Brock, P. 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