HMS Algiers (1854)

	HMS Algiers off Sebastopol
History
United Kingdom
Name	Algiers
Ordered	3 October 1833 (as 110-gun first rate); 26 December 1840 (as 90-gun second rate); 25 April 1847 (altered design); 3 August 1852 (conversion to steam);
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard (as first ordered); Plymouth Dockyard (from 1840);
Laid down	10 July 1843
Launched	26 January 1854
Completed	By 30 June 1854
Fate	Sold for scrap, 26 February 1870
General characteristics (as built)
Type	91-gun second rate ship of the line
Displacement	4,730 long tons (4,810 t)
Tons burthen	3,347 bm
Length	255 ft 6 in (77.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	60 ft (18.3 m)
Draught	25 ft 7 in (7.8 m)
Depth of hold	24 ft 5 in (7.4 m)
Installed power	1,117 ihp (833 kW)
Propulsion	1 screw; 1 single-expansion steam engine
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	850
Armament	91 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns:; Lower deck: 32 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns; Upper deck: 32 × 32 pdrs; Quarter deck & Forecastle: 26 × 32 pdrs; 1 × 68 pdr;

HMS Algiers was a 91-gun second rate steam and sail-powered ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. Completed in 1854, she served as a troopship during the Crimean War of 1854–1855. The ship was sold for scrap in 1870.