HMS Chesapeake (1855)

{{short description|Frigate of the Royal Navy}}

{{other ships|HMS Chesapeake}}

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File:Black-list men, mustering for water grog. HMS Chesapeake.jpg

HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men.[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=77 Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake]

File:Chesapeake Monument, Clarence Espalande, Southsea (NHLE Code 1386939) (May 2019).JPG

She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth.[http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/southsea/chesapeake.htm Chesapeake Memorial] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016215311/http://memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/southsea/chesapeake.htm |date=16 October 2007 }} She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.

Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.{{Citation | first = Ruddock F. | last = Mackay | author-link = Ruddock F. Mackay | title = Fisher of Kilverstone | place = London | pages = 13–28 | publisher = Oxford Clarendon Press | year = 1973 }}