Model 57. Lent by Geo. Turner esquire. Fitted out with a central main battery with sloping sides, fore and aft gunfire via guns at the height of the spar deck behind a transverse semi-circular shield at each end of the broadside battery. This arrangement was to some extent used of later built built warships. Displacement 3,000 tons with as dimensions 210 (between perpendiculars) x 40 x 25 feet. Armament 8 hevay guns. Fitted out with a ram bow.
Source
Catalague of the Naval and Marine Engineering Collection in the Science Division of the Victora and Albert Museum, London, 1899.
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