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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2012}}{{Infobox ship imageShip image= | Ship caption= }}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Furious | Ship ordered=25 April 1847 | Ship builder=Portsmouth Dockyard/ Miller & Ravenhill | Ship laid down=June 1848 | Ship launched=26 August 1850 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=18 February 1853 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=Became a coal hulk at Portsmouth, March 1867 | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold for breaking up 1884 | Ship status= | Ship notes= }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Furious|frigate}} | Ship tons burthen=1,287 tons | 206|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 36|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | Ship draft= | Ship hold depth= | Ship sail plan= | Ship propulsion=*2-cylinder oscillating engines- paddle wheels
- 400 nhp
- sails
| Ship complement=175 | Ship armament=16 guns: 10 x 32pdr guns (Middle deck) 2 x 10in guns on pivots (Upper deck) 4 x 32pdr guns (Upper deck) | Ship notes= }} | {{otherships|HMS Furious}}HMS Furious was a 16 gun steam powered paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 26 August 1850. She was the lead ship of the two ship class of {{sclass-|Furious|frigate}}. She was built at a cost of £64,794, of which her machinery cost £24,577. She was sent with 14 gunboats as reinforcements to the China squadron in 1857.[1] She became a coal hulk at Portsmouth in March 1867 and was sold for breaking up in 1884 to Castle, of Charlton. References1. ^{{cite book |last1=Beasley |first1=William G. |title=Great Britain and the Opening of Japan 1834-1858 |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1134244746 |page=170 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UzZdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA170&lpg |accessdate=21 February 2019}}
- {{Colledge}}
- Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889, pub Chatham, 2004, {{ISBN|1-86176-032-9}}
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