HMS Chesapeake (1855)
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HMS Chesapeake was a
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screw-propelled 51-gun
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launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men. She saw action during the
Second Opium War The Second Opium War (), also known as the Second Anglo-Sino War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted the British Empire and the French Emp ...
and there is a memorial to her losses at
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, near
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. She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861. Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chesapeake Frigates of the Royal Navy Ships built in Chatham 1855 ships Victorian-era frigates of the United Kingdom