HMS Orion was a 91-gun screw ship launched in 1854 and second of six ships of the same name.

History

She was commanded from this time through to late 1857 by Captain John Elphinstone Erskine; including the 23 Apr 1856 Fleet Review at Spithead. and saw service during the Baltic war against Russia

Russia

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 in 1855. The Orion had a crew complement of 850 men. She was broken up in the 1867.

The original ship's muster books are held at the National Archives in Kew

Kew

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, London, and can be found within classification ADM/38.

HSM Orion construction began at Chatham Dockyard, England, and launched on 06-Nov-1854 She was 238 feet long, 55 feet 6 inches wide, and was . Orion was armed with 34 x 8 inch guns, 1 x 68 pdr, and 56 x 32 pdr guns. (91 guns) Sea trial began on 24 Feb 1856 from Devonport.

HMS Orion had taken part in the Royal Fleet Review of 1856 and had won the Battle Honour of the Baltic in 1855.

Known sailings across the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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arriving Havana on 14 Jul 1857 from Port Royal with a departure for Halifax on 16 July 1857. Then into the Mediterranean Sea in 1860.