HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men.

[1] She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth.

[2] 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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