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Orlando. Career RN Ensign Ordered: 31 March 1855 Builder:
Pembroke Dockyard Cost: £187,042 Laid down: November 1856
Launched: 16 June 1858 Completed: 21 April 1859 at Portsmouth
Dockyard Commissioned: 17 December 1861 Fate: Sold for breaking
up 15 June 1871 General characteristics Displacement: 5,493 tons
Tons burthen: 3,740 tons BM Length: 336 ft 9 in (102.64 m)
overall, 300 ft 0.5 in (91.453 m) gundeck, 264 ft 3.25 in
(80.5498 m) keel Beam: 52 ft 1 in (15.88 m) Draught: 29 ft
(8.8 m) Depth of hold: 19 ft 10 in (6.05 m) Propulsion: sails;
1000 shp auxiliary steam engine. Speed: 13.290kts on trial
Endurance: 145 hours at full steam Complement: around 600
Armament: 1859: Upper deck: 12 x 8in/68-pounder shell guns Main
Deck: 28 x 10in shell guns  HMS Orlando was a Mersey-class
wooden-hulled steam-powered (although fully rigged with sails)
screw frigate built for the Royal Navy from 185