HMS Queen Battleship 1839 Postcard

Charles Edward Dixon HMS Queen 1st rate ship of the line Battleship 1839 Queen Battleship was 3083 tons with 32-pounder sets of heavy-calibre pieces of artillery mounted and most powerful armament on a warship. The British version fired a 14.4 kilogram projectile at about 487 metres per second, for a muzzle energy of over 1.7 million joules. Such a powerful gun with a large weight of shot posed serious damage to enemy ships. The HMS Queen was a 110-gun ship launched on May 15, 1839 at Portsmouth. It was the last battleship to be ordered as a purely sailing ship. Subsequent ships were ordered with both sails and steam engines. All British battleships were constructed with sails until the 1870s.