HMS Bristol (1861)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bristol.

HMS Bristol (1861)
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Bristol
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	16 September 1859
Launched:	12 February 1861
Completed:	October 1865
Fate:	Sold for breaking up December 1883
General characteristics
Class & type:	Bristol-class frigate
Displacement:	3,996 long tons (4,060 t)
Length:	250 ft (76.2 m)
Beam:	52 ft (15.8 m)
Draught:	22 ft 5 in (6.8 m)
Installed power:	2,088 ihp (1,557 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 1 Steam engine
Speed:	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement:	550-600
Armament:	Thirty 8-inch (203 mm) muzzle-loading smoothbore guns Twenty 32-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore guns One 68-pounder muzzle-loading smoothbore gun

HMS Bristol was a Bristol-class wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy.

'An analysis of ship air and its effect' was made and reported during a four months' voyage (July to November 1871) from the Cape of Good Hope to England. This gives an insite to the conditions on board and concludes 'Seamen, as a body, are neither healthy nor long lived, but the reverse. This is proved, first, by their low average age, said to be 33'. A description of the ship layout is also given, the upper tier contained the Main deck, Upper, Half deck, Study, Mess room & Main deck cabins. Middle tier contained the Lower deck, Steerage, Ward room, Chest (cadets' sleeping)room and steerage cabins Do., & Pantry. The Lowest tier Stokehole, Engine room, Screw alley, Cockpit, Store room & Cells. It also states the ship had four boilers.

Notes

• "Various British Screw Frigates". Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club. 1968. pp. 323. 
• Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. 
• Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif: The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 Chatham Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
• Naval Database http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00685.html