HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men.Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake
She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth.Chesapeake Memorial 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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