3rd Rate ships of the Royal Navy. 1793 to 1815.

HMS Royal Oak (1809)



HMS Royal Oak was a Revived Hero class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 24th of January 1805, laid down in the April of 1805, and built by John Dudman and Co at Deptford Dockyard. She was launched on the 4th of March 1809, and completed at Woolwich between the 16th of March and the 3rd of May.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Royal Oak
Builder:	Dudman, Deptford Wharf
Laid down:	April1805
Launched:	4 March 1809
Fate:	Broken up, 1850
General characteristics
Class and type:	Revived Hero Class ship of the line.
Tons burthen:	1759 (bm)
Length:	175 ft 2in (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 11 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	650 officers and men (inc. 60-80 marines)
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 10 × 32-pounder carronades ·Forecastle: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.


HMS Royal Oak was commissioned in the April of 1809 under Captain Lord Amelius Beauclerk for the Walcheren operations.
In the August of 1811 she came under the command of Captain Pulteney Malcolm.


War of 1812.


In the January of 1812 Royal Oak was placed under the command of Captain Thomas George Shortland as the Flagship of the newly appointed Rear Admiral Beauclerk of the Texel, on the North American station. Shortland was superseded by Captain Edward Dix in 1813. Royal Oak continuing on as the Flagship of Beauclerk. On the17th of December,1813 She shared with other vessels in the proceeds of the capture of the American vessel Maria Antoinette.


On the 1st of June, 1814, the now Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm , who had hoisted his flag aboard Royal Oak, proceeded with troops under Brigadier-General Robert Ross, accompanied Sir Alexander Cochrane on an expedition up the Chesapeake, and handled both the dis-embarkation and re-embarkation of the troops employed against Washington and Baltimore.

Ross was killed on the12th of September, 1814 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Royal Oak carrying his body to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for interment on the 29th of September. 1814.


In the October of 1814 Royal Oak came under the command of Captain Joseph Pearce, who in December was with the fleet under Cochrane preparing for the investment of New Orleans. Before the attack commenced, her ship’s boats also participated in the Battle of Lake Borgne.
On the 8th of December, two US gunboats fired on the Sophie, Armide and the sixth-rate frigate Seahorse whilst they were passing the chain of small islands which run parallel to the shore between Mobile and Lake Borgne.
Between the 12th and and 15th of December, Captain Lockyer of Sophie led a flotilla of some 50 boats, barges, gigs and launches to attack the US gunboats. Lockyer drew his flotilla from the fleet that was massing against New Orleans, including the 74-gun Third Rates Royal Oak and Tonnant, and a number of other vessels including Armide, Seahorse, Manly and Meteor. Lockyer deployed the boats in three divisions, of which he led one. Captain Montresor of the gun-brig Manly commanded the second, and Captain Roberts of Meteor commanded the third. After rowing for 36 hours, the British met the Americans at St. Joseph's Island. On the 13th of December, the British attacked the one-gun schooner USS Sea Horse. On the morning of the 14th, the British engaged the Americans in a short, violent battle. The British captured or destroyed almost the entire American force, including the tender, USS Alligator, and five gunboats. The British lost 17 men killed and 77 wounded; Royal Oak had only one man wounded. Anaconda then evacuated the wounded. In 1821 the survivors of the flotilla shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of the American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "14 Dec Boat Service 1814" to 205 survivors (from all the participating boats).

In support of the attack on New Orleans, sixty Royal Marines from Royal Oak were disembarked. One of these men was killed in action on the 8th of January 1815, as a force of marines, sailors, and soldiers of the 85th Regiment of Foot commanded by Colonel William Thornton successfully assaulted American positions on the west bank of the Mississippi. The naval contingent was under the command of Commander Rowland Money, of Trave, who was severely wounded in the attack.

Fate.

Command of Royal Oak now passed to Captain Clotworthy Upton, and under his command she returned to England in the winter of 1815, where she went into ordinary at Portsmouth. She was then fitted as a receiving ship at Portsmouth between the September and December of 1825 to house convicts at Bermuda. She was hulked in 1834, and finally broken up there by Admiralty Orders on the 17th of October,1850.

HMS Ajax (1809)

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HMS Ajax was a 74-gun, Armada Class, third rate ship of the line, built at the Admiralty’s instigation as a joint venture by the two ship designers Peake and Rule to incorporate the best features taken from both men’s designs. Ordered on the 1st of July, 1807 the ship was laid down in the following month, the shipbuilders being Perry, Wells, and Green of Blackwall Yard. She was launched there on the 2nd of May, 1809, and her fitting out was completed at Woolwich on the 15th of June.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Ajax
Ordered:	1 July 1807
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall Yard
Laid down:	August 1807
Launched:	2 May 1809
Fate:	Broken up, 1864
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1761 bm
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 9.5 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 10 × 32-pounder carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·PD: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.

HMS Ajax was commissioned in the June of 1809 under Captain Robert Otway, who commanded her until 1811. On the 4th of October,1809 she sailed for the Med, and by the 20th of July, 1810 had become a member of Blackwood’s squadron operating off Toulon. On the 11th of September in that year, Ajax took part in a ship action off Elba, in which action Charles Benyon aged 22, a Lieutenant on the ship, was killed attempting to board a French vessel. He was the third son of Richard Benyon of Englefield House, Berks, where the Benyon family still live.

On the 13th of December, 350 sailors and 250 marines from Ajax, and two other third rates, the Cambrian and Kent attacked Palamós whilst the sloops Sparrowhawk and Minstrel covered the landings. The landing party succeeded in destroying six of eight merchant vessels conveying supplies intended for the French army at Barcelona, as well as the ships escorting them. These comprised a national ketch of 14 guns and 60 men and two xebecs of three guns and thirty men each. The vessels were lying inside the mole under the protection of 250 French troops, a battery of two 24-pounders, and a 13" mortar in a battery on a commanding height. Although the attack was successful, the withdrawal was not. The British lost 33 men killed, 89 wounded, and 86 taken prisoner, plus one seaman who took the opportunity to desert.

On the 31st of March, 1811, Ajax and HMS Unite encountered a French squadron comprising the frigates Adrienne and Amélie, and the armed transport French corvette, Dromadaire.which was armed en flute, Ajax captured Dromadaire, while the frigates managed to escape to Portoferraio. Captain Otway reported that Dromadaire was frigate-built and sailed remarkably well. Her cargo consisted of 15,000 shot and shells of various sizes and 90 tons of gunpowder. Apparently Napoleon Bonaparte intended them as a present for Hammuda ibn Ali, the Bey of Tunis. Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, decided to buy her and her stores for the Royal Navy.
The following month command passed to Captain James Brisbane, and then in the October of that year to Captain Sir Robert Lawrie, who commanded her in the Med until 1812.
Ajax then returned to Plymouth for defects to be repaired between the April and July of 1813. During this period of inactivity Captain Otway was reinstated as her Captain in the May of that year. By the 8th of September she was at San Sebastian, and on the 17th of March 1814, Ajax captured the French 16-gun brig L’Alcyon near the Lizard. The Frenchman was armed with sixteen 24-pounder Carronades, and was crewed by 120 men. She was provisioned for a four-month cruise, but was only 24 hours out from Saint-Malo when Ajax took her. Ajax then proceeded to North America transporting troops, but had returned to the Med, now under Captain George Mundy by the October of that year.

Post-war.

She returned to Portsmouth and was paid off in the July of 1816. She went in for a major which cost £67.758 and then between the October of 1820 and the June of 1829 Ajax was converted to a blockship with screw propulsion under Admiralty Orders. The rebuild was carried out by White’s of Cowes between the November of 1845 and the September of 1846. £15.908 being paid to White for the work to convert her for coastal defence (also called 'steam-guard-ships'. The conversion process had involved removing her copper, ballast and some of the bulkheads, and cutting her down in the shape of a blockship.

From 1846 until 1853 she was stationed as a guardship in Queenstown, now Cobh. She took part in the Crimean War 1853-1856. In 1854 she was involved in the Bombardment of Bomarsund, Finland. In 1858 she resumed guardship duties, this time in Kingstown, now Dún Laoghaire.


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Ajax as guardship at Kingstown

Captain John McNeil Boyd R.N. was master of the Ajax while she was in Dún Laoghaire. On the 8th of February,1861 there occurred the worst storm in living memory. 29 ships were lost between Wicklow Head and Howth Head, all close to Dún Laoghaire. Boyd organised rescues, but he and five of his crew were lost in the attempt. Fifteen surviving members of the Ajax crew were decorated for bravery and most were promoted.

Fate.

On the 3rd of December,1863, Ajax was driven ashore at Kingstown. Although she was successfully refloated, It was announced in the February of 1864 that the Royal George would replace her as the Coast-guard ship at Devonport.
She was broken up in 1864.

HMS Berwick (1809)



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Berwick



HMS Berwick was an Armada Class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 1st of July 1807, and built to the design of Peake and Rule by Perry, Wells and Green at Blackwall She was laid down in the October of that same year, and launched on the 11th of September,1809. She was fitted for ordinary at Woolwich, and completed on the 14th of July 1810.
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History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Berwick
Ordered:	1 July 1807
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall
Laid down:	October 1807
Launched:	11 September 1809
Fate:	Broken up, 1821
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1761 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 9.5 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder guns carronades

Service.


HMS Berwick was commissioned under Captain James Macnamara in the March of 1810.
In an action on the 24th of March 1811, Berwick under Captain Macnamara ran down the 40 gun French frigate L‘Amazone off Barfleur Normandy close to the Phare de Gatteville lighthouse. To avoid being captured the French ship was burnt to the waterline, with only one sailor being killed during the engagement.


In the October of that year now under Captain Edward Brace, who was to command her until 1815, Berwick sailed for the Med. On the 16th of May, 1813, her ships boats accompanied with those from HMS Euryalus took the 10 gun xebec La Fortune.
Before the fall of Genoa in April 1814, the boats of Berwick and Rainbow, together with two Sicilian gunboats, attacked French posts near the pass of Rona on 8 and 10 April to assist the British army in its advance. The British drove off the French defenders, who left behind two 24-pounder guns and two mortars. The British lost two men killed and five wounded.


In the period from 1815 to 1816 Berwick was placed under the command of Captain J. Nash, and under him was laid up at Plymouth in the July of 1816.


Fate.


Because it was discovered that Berwick was in need of Major repairs, it was decided that she be broken up in the March of 1821.

HMS Rodney (1809)

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HMS Rodney



HMS Rodney was a 74-gun third rate Armada Class ship of the line, ordered on the 13th of July 1807, and built at Deptford by Mrs. Francis Barnard, to the specifications laid down by Peake and Rule. She was laid down in the March of 1808 and launched on the 8th of December, 1809. She was fitted out at Deptford and completed at on the Woolwich on the10th of April, 1810.

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History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Rodney
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Barnard, Deptford
Laid down:	March 1808
Launched:	8 December 1809
Fate:	Sold, 1836
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1754 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 5 in (54.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 7.5 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft .75 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades ·Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

Service.


HMS Rodney was commissioned under Captain George Burlton in the February of 1810, and sailed for the Med on the 2nd of June of that year.In the September of 1811 she came under the command of Captain Edward Durnford King and then in 1812 Captain John Duff Markland still in the Med. In 1813, on her return to England, she went into ordinary at Portsmouth where a small repair was carried out between the May of that year and the January of 1814. Recommissioning having commenced in the December of 1813 under Captain Charles Inglis, she then became the Flagship of Vice Admiral Sir George Martin.

She was paid off in the August of that year as her condition was becoming concerning. At the time that Rodney was under construction the Dockyard had been suffering from a shortage of seasoned timber. As a consequence of this, the hull was built from unseasoned material which quickly shrank as it dried out, thus opening up the caulking and allowing seepage and ingress of seawater. This in turn caused the timbers to rot. Due to this, after only just over three years at sea all the hull fastenings had also corroded or become loose and unsafe, consequently Rodney had to be returned to Deptford for decommissioning.


Fate.


In 1827 Renamed Greenwich, by Admiralty Orders she was cut down to a fourth rate Frigate of 50-guns.
However, the conversion was never completed, and at Portsmouth in the September of 1836 she was sold out of the Navy for £5,310.


In commercial service, on the 11th of October 1846 Greenwich was in collision with the British Paddle Steamer the Thames at Havana in Cuba, destroying her Pinnace, and was then driven ashore.

HMS Poictiers (1809)

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Poictiers

HMS Poictiers was yet another Peake and Rule Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line, ordered on the 1st of October,1806. Built by John King at Upnor, she was laid down in the August of 1807, and was launched on the 9th of December,1809. Fitting out at Chatham was completed on the 4th of May,1810.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Poictiers
Ordered:	1 October 1806
Builder:	King, Upnor
Laid down:	August 1807
Launched:	9 December 1809
Fate:	Broken up, 1857
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1764​3⁄94 (bm)
Length:	·Overall:176 ft 3 in (53.7 m) ·Keel:145 ft 2 3⁄8 in (44.3 m)
Beam:	47 ft 9 1⁄2 in (14.6 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	590
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.


HMS Poictiers was commissioned by Captain John Poo Beresford for service in the Channel in the January of 1810 whilst she was fitting out at Chatham.On the 28th of July, Poictiers together with Seine and Shannon participated in the recapture of the Starling. Then on the 22nd of October in that same year she sailed for Portugal.


On the 10th of January,1811, she was involved in the pursuit of Allemande’s squadron off Ushant. In March she came under the command of Captain Richard Jones in an acting capacity. Whilst under his command, on the 22nd of April, Poictiers, Caledonia and the hired armedcutterNimrod captured the French vessel Auguste. They first removed her cargo of casks of wine, and then destroyed the ship.


Command of Poictiers changed again to another acting captain in 1812. This time it was to be Captain Samuel Jackson who had the ship from the January until the July of that year off the Texel. On the 24th of March, Poictiers was in company with Tonnant, Hogue, Colossus and Bulwark when they captured Emilie.


After Jackson left the ship in July, the ship was ordered to sail for America. Consequently, on the 14th of August, Poictiers now back under the command of Captain Beresford, accompanied Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, who was sailing to Halifax, Nova Scotia, on San Domingo, together with Sophie, Magnet, and Mackerel. Unfortunately Magnet was lost during the voyage, and it was presumed that she had foundered with all hands.


On the 18th of October, Poictiers participated in an action where she rescued Frolic by capturing USS Wasp, commanded by Jacob Jones. Four hours after Wasp had captured Frolic, Captain Beresford hove in sight capturing Wasp and recapturing the Frolic. He then accompanied both ships to Bermuda. Frolic returned to duty and Wasp became HMS Loup Cervier. In November 1818 the proceeds of the sales of ordnance stores and head-money for the men captured on board the Wasp, also for ordnance stores recaptured on board Frolic was paid.

Thereafter, Poictiers captured a number of merchant vessels, alone or with other ships.

On the 29th of October: the brig Little William, of the Isle of Mayo and sailing to Philadelphia; 3rd of November: the brig Logan, from Boston, sailing to Baltimore., 25th of November: the ship Rebecca, from Philadelphia sailing for Madeira;11th of December: schooner Betsy, from Providence (Rhode Island), sailing to Norfolk.In December, the ship Pekin, from Boston sailing to Alexandria (Poictiers was at this time in company with Acasta).

One of these may or may not have been a ship from Brazil carrying a cargo of hides and tallow that USS Argus had captured. Poictiers recaptured the ship off the Virginia Capes in mid-December and sent her into Bermuda.


On the 28th of December Poictiers and Acasta captured the American privateer Herald, of 18 guns (10 mounted), and 50 men, as Herald was sailing from Bordeaux to Baltimore. More captures followed.


In early January 1813, the warships of the squadron blockading New York, of which Poictiers was one, captured a number of vessels. These comprised, the Schooners Syren and Tropic, sailing from New York to Charleston. the Sloop Almira, from New York to Fredericksburg. Thee Brig Industry, voyaging from Rhode Island to Virginia, and the Brig Caroline,on her way from Charleston to New York.



The British armed the Syren with a single gun and a crew of 40 men. She then captured the American Eagle, Herlitz, master, which had been sailing from Cadiz to New York. The next captures were on the 17th of January 1813 of the ship Lydia, from Rhode Islands sailing to Norfolk (Poictiers in company with Acasta and Maidstone); and also in January the schooner Rhoda (Poictiers and Acasta).
On the 24th of February, American brigs Gustavus and Staunch and the American brig Hannah, which Poictiers shared with six other British ships. on the 13th of March 1813 a Swedish brig, from Martinique. On the 29th of March, the American ship Montesquieu (Poictiers in company with Belvidera and the actual captor, the schooner Paz).On the 17th of April a Portuguese schooner, Alliance, sailing from Philadelphia to Jamaica with a cargo of flour, and sent in to Bermuda.Then on the 8th of April, English schooner Bermuda recaptured while sailing from Bermuda to Philadelphia, and used as a tender to Poictiers. The 1st of May saw the capture of American sloop Providence, sailing from Philadelphia to Boston with a cargo of flour and corn, and also dispatched to Bermuda.On the10th of May came the American sloop, Factor, sailing from Philadelphia to Boston with a cargo of cotton, cargo, which having been removed, the vessel was set adrift. On the 13th and 14th of March Poictiers was part of a squadron of 12 ships that shared in the capture of the Christina and Massatoit.


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Poictiers fired a few ineffectual shots.
The position of the channel made it necessary for Yankee to pass close to Poictiers

On the 4th or or 5th of July, 1813, the American smack Yankee captured the brig Eagle, which was serving as a tender to Poictiers. The Americans put 40 militiamen on board Yankee and sailed her where Eagle was known to be patrolling. The militiamen concealed themselves while on Yankee's deck there were three men dressed as fishermen, and a calf, a goose, and a sheep were tethered. When Yankee encountered Eagle, Eagle fell for the bait of fresh meat and came alongside. The Americans, under Sailing-Master Percival, came out of hiding and fired their small arms. Although Eagle carried a brass 32-pounder howitzer loaded with canister, she was unable to get off a shot. The Americans then took Eagle into New York. Eagle had two men killed, including her commander Master's Mate H. Morris, and Midshipman W. Price mortally wounded. The remaining eight seamen were taken prisoner.

Poictiers in company with Maidstone and Nimrod captured several vessels. On the13th of August, 1813, brig Anna, of 125 tons, Diego Martinez, master, sailing from Newhaven to Laguira. on the18th of August the ship Manchester. which Poictiers captured alone. On the 29th of August, the brig Mariner; and then on the 3rd of September, the brig Watson.

In addition to these commercial prizes, Poictiers took three American armed vessels. The first, on the 25th of December, was the brig Herald, a 10-gun Privateer pierced for 16 guns and with a crew of 50 men. She had been sailing from Bordeaux to Baltimore. Poictiers was again in company with Acasta and Maidstone. Herald, prior to herself being captured, had taken a ship, a brig, and a schooner. The cargo of the ship Friendship alone had an estimated value of US$400,000.

Next, Poictiers took the American schooner Highflyer, of five guns and 72 men, on the 9th of January,1813. She was on her return from the West Indies, where she had made several captures. Under the command of Captain Jeremiah Grant, Highflyer, of Baltimore, had captured two ships, four brigs, one schooner and one sloop; three of these vessels had been armed. The Royal Navy took Highflyer into service under her existing name.

The third privateer was Yorktown, of 20 guns and 140 men. The actual captor of York Town was Maidstone, with Poictiers and Nimrod in company. Yorktown, under Captain T. W. Story, had taken 11 prizes, including Manchester before Maidstone captured her on the17th of July,1813, after a four-hour chase. The British sent Yorktown and her crew into Halifax. These incidents aside, Poictiers had an uneventful war, though there is a record of one humorous incident. The exhibit center of the town of Lewes, Delaware, has a framed copy of a handwritten letter from Captain Beresford to the town's chief magistrate. Dated the 16th of March, 1813, the letter says:

Sir,
As soon as you receive this, I request you will send 20 live bullocks with a proportionate quantity of vegetables and hay to the Poictiers for the use of Britannic Majesty's squadron now at this anchorage, which will be immediately paid for at the Philadelphia prices. If you refuse to comply with this request I shall be under necessity of destroying your town. I have the honor to be, sir, your very obedient servant,
J. P. Beresford.



Commodore and commander of the British Squadron in the Mouth of the Delaware.



Col. Samuel Boyer Davis, commander of American troops in Lewes, refused the demand, so on the 6th and 7th of April Beresford shelled the town, killing a chicken and wounding a pig. There is a cannonball from Poictiers lodged in the stone foundation of Lewes's Marine Museum.

In the November of 1813, Poictiers was at Halifax, Nova Scotia preparing to escort a convoy of merchant vessels to England when a gale hit the city. It destroyed or damaged many vessels, though Poictiers was able to ride out the gale.

Poictiers returned to Chatham in 1814 for a large repair which took place between the April of1815 and the September of 1817 at a cost of £51,601.

Fate.


She was fitted at Sheerness as a guard ship between the March of 1836 and the September of 1837. She remained in that role at Chatham until March 1848 when she became a depot ship until 1850. In 1857 she was sold out of service and broken up, the breaking up being completed on the 23rd of March, 1857.
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HMS Minden (1810)


HMS Minden was a 74-gun Later Ganges Class third rate ship of the line, ordered in 1801. Investigation on the feasibility of having her built at Bombay was not confirmed until the 5th of June, 1803. She was then built by the East India Company, and bore the name of the German town of Minden and the battle which took place there in 1759. Built of Teak by Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia of the Wadia Group at the Duncan Docks, she was not laid down until 1807, and launched on the 19th of June, 1810.

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Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, the master shipbuilder. The Minden is shown under construction beyond the window.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Minden
Ordered:	5th June 1803
Builder:	Bombay Dockyard, India
Launched:	19 June 1810
Honours and awards:	·Naval General Service Medal (1847) ·"30 July Boat Service 1811" ·"Algiers"
Fate:	Hulked, 1842 Sold for breaking up, 1861
General characteristics
Class and type:	Later Ganges Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1721 (bm)
Length:	171ft 4.5 in (51.67 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 11in (14.6 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 3 in (6.17 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs ·Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

Service.


Minden sailed from Bombay on 8 February 1811 on her first cruise, under the command of Edward Wallis Hoare, and manned by the crew of the Russell. In March she sailed from Madras to take part in the invasion of Java. On 29 July two of her boats, under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Lyons, with only 35 officers and men aboard, attacked and captured the fort covering the harbour of Marrack, to the westward of Batavia. The Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "30 July Boat Service 1811" was issued to survivors of this action in 1848. The Dutch and French forces in Java surrendered in September. Minden then sailed for the UK and escorted convoys to the East Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and the coast of Africa.


In 1812 she came under the command of Captain Alexander Skene, who sailed her back to India to join the fleet of. Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, the cousin of Viscount Bridport, Hood himself, along with his Captain of the Fleet William Webley, did not set out from Portsmouth until the end of September aboard the 36 gun Owen Glendower. The voyage out to the East Indies was such a difficult one that concerns were expressed for the Owen Glendower’s survival, yet she eventually arrived at Madras, where Hood took the Illustrious 74 from Commodore William Broughton as his flagship, much to the annoyance of that officer. He moved with Captain Webley to the Minden once she was brought out from Portsmouth by Captain Alexander Skene in the summer of 1813. After Webley returned home she was later commanded by Captains Joseph Prior in 1813, and thereafter Captain George Henderson, still with Hood.


Minden next saw service during the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay. Some accounts state that Francis Scott Key was aboard Minden when he wrote the poem "Defense of Fort M'Henry", which became the lyrics for "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Georgetown. During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied the British Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner on board the HMS Minden. Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners. They were, however, not allowed to return to their own sloop because they now knew about the British intent to attack Baltimore. Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night between the 13th and 14th of September, 1814.


In the January of 1815 she came under the command of Captain Donald Mackay and on her return to England in 1816 she was paid off at Portsmouth where defects were made good..
In the late July of 1816, under Captain William Patterson who was to command her until 1820, Minden sailed from Plymouth Sound, as part of an Anglo-Dutch fleet that made an attack on Algiers on the 27th of August. In which action she lost 7 killed and 27 wounded. The Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "Algiers" was issued to survivors of this battle in 1848.
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The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816, by George Chambers (1836), portrays the HMS Minden

Minden served as the Flagship of Sir Richard King from 1817, and sailed for the East Indies, being reported as being at Trincomalee in 1819.
Returning to England in the October of 1820 she was paid off and went into ordinary. Between the April of 1821 and the August of 1823 she underwent repairs at Plymouth and was housed over from her main mast forrard.

In July 1830 Minden was still at Plymouth and she was re-commissioned there on the 19th of March, 1836 for Particular service, and sailed for the Tagus joining the British squadron at Lisbon until 1838. She then sailed into the Med. In 1839 she was at Malta, returning to Plymouth in early 1840.


She was back at Devonport dockyard when it suffered severe damage in a large scale fire on the 25th of September,1840 It had started in the North Dock on HMS Talavera, which was completely gutted, spread to the Minden, whose fire was successfully put out, and then spread to nearby buildings and equipment.

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Fate.


A typhoon destroyed the shore-based Royal Naval Hospital at Hong Kong on the 22nd of July, 1841, and Minden was commissioned at Plymouth in the December of that year to serve as a hospital ship there. She was stationed at Hong Kong as a hospital ship from 1842 until she was replaced by HMS Alligator in 1846. Minden then served there as stores ship until sold for scrapping on the 4th of July 1861.

HMS Hannibal (1810)

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Hannibal


HMS Hannibal was a Revived Hero Class 74-gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 24th of January 1805 and built by Henry Adams at Bucklers Hard. She was laid down in the December of that year and not finally launched until the May of 1810. She was completed at Portsmouth on the 7th of September of that year.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Hannibal
Ordered:	24 January 1805
Builder:	Adams, Bucklers Hard
Launched:	May 1810
Fate:	Broken up, December 1833 to Jan 1834.
General characteristics
Class and type:		Revived Hero Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1748 (bm)
Length:		176 ft (53.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		47 ft 7 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:		20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades ·Forecastle: 4 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

Service.


HMS Hannibal was commissioned under Captain Thomas Searle in the July of 1810 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Williams for service at the Scheldt. She then sailed for Portugal on the 6th of October in that same year.


In 1811 under Captain Andrew King she served as Flagship to Rear Admiral Philip Durham in the Baltic. By the December of that year she had changed captains to Captain Thomas Brown. During 1812, now serving in the Channel she came under Captain Michael Seymour who remained in command until 1814. On the 26th of March, Hannibal, Hebrus, and Sparrow encountered the French 40 gun frigates Sultane and Etoile, off Cherbourg whilst they were returning from the Cape Verde Islands and a cruise of commerce raiding. Hannibal set off after Sultane and sent Hebrus and Sparrow after Etoile. Both French vessels were captured the next day. Hannibal captured Sultane without a fight. Hebrus captured Étoile, but only after severe fighting at the ensuing Battle of Jobourg.


Later in the year she sailed with a convoy to the West Indies, and on her return in the August of that year went into ordinary at Plymouth.


Fate.


She was fitted as a lazarette between the July and August of 1825 and was used for harbour service from that date until 1826, when she was moved to Pembroke. Hannibal was broken up there between the December of 1833 and the January of 1834.

HMS Vigo (1810)



HMS Vigo was another Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74-gun third rate ship of the line ordered on the 20th of October 1806, and built by Charles Ross at Rochester. She was laid down in the April of 1807, and launched on the 21st of February, 1810. She was completed for ordinary on the 20th of April, 1810, and for sea duty at Chatham by the 18th of March, 1811.

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Vigo

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Vigo
Ordered:	20 October 1806
Builder:	Ross, Rochester
Laid down:	April 1807
Launched:	21 February 1810
Fate:	Broken up, 1865
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1786 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 9 in (54.25 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	48 ft 6 in (15.2 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 11.5 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades ·Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

Service.


HMS Vigo was commissioned under Captain Richard Jones in the January of 1811, and in the June of that year came under the command of Captain Manley Hall Dixon as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Manley Hall Dixon in the Baltic.


In 1812 Captain Henry Ommanney took command of Vigo when she became the Flagship of Rear Admiral James Nicoll Morris, and then in 1813 under Captain Thomas White as Flagship to Rear Admiral Graham Moore. During this period nothing eventful took place, and she was paid off in the December of that year at Portsmouth. After a small repair between the March and September of 1815 she was laid up.


In the November of 1819, whilst still residing at Portsmouth, she was recommissioned and fitted for sea once again. This time her Captain was Thomas Browne, and she sailed for the Cape of Good Hope as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Robert Lambert, and was at St. Helena from 1820 to 1821. She then returned to Portsmouth to become the flagship of Admiral Sir James Whitshed from 1822 to 1823.


Fate.


She was fitted as a receiving ship at Plymouth between the December of 1826 and the July of 1827, and was broken up by Marshall of Plymouth between the May and August of 1865.

HMS Cressy (1810)



HMS Cressy was yet another Armada Class out of the Peake and Rule design book. She was also a 74 gun, third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 1st of October, 1806, and built by Josiah and Thomas Brindley at Frindsbury. Laid down in the March of 1807, she was launched on the 7th of March,1810 and completed for ordinary on the 9th of May at Chatham.

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Cressy

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Cressy
Ordered:	1 October 1806
Builder:	Brindley, Frindsbury
Launched:	7 March 1810
Fate:	Broken up 1832
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1763 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 1 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 9.75 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.


HMS Cressy was commissioned by Captain Charles Pater in the January of 1811 and prepared for sea at Sheerness for Baltic service.


On the 5th of July she captured a Danish gunboat, however,on the 24th of December Cressy was off the west coast of Jutland, in company with HMS St. George, under Rear-admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, and also the HMS Defence, when a fierce storm accompanied by very heavy seas blew up. St George was under jury-rig and so Captain Atkins of Defence refused to abandon her without the Admiral's permission. Consequently, both ships were wrecked near Ringkøbing.However, Captain Pater did not ask for permission and thus Cressy avoided the fate of her consorts.

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A View of the shipwreck and total loss of the St George and the Defence; Cressy can be seen top left of the picture


Both St George and Defence lost almost all their crews, including the Admiral. Most of the bodies that washed ashore were buried in the sand dunes of Thorsminde, which have been known ever since as "Dead Men’s Dunes".

War of 1812.


On the 12th of August 1812, shortly after the outbreak of the war with America, Cressy shared in the seizure of several American vessels: Cuba, Caliban, Edward, Galen, Halcyon, and Cygnet.
On the 21st of February 1813 she sailed for the Leeward Islands, but by the September of that year she had returned to Portsmouth to make good several defects. Recommissioned in the August of that year under Captain Charles Dashwood for the North sea, she then returned to the Leewards. On her return to Portsmouth in the May of 1814 she was paid off and went into ordinary.


Fate.


On the 20th of March,1827, by Admiralty Orders, Cressy was about to be cut down to a 50 gun Frigate, when the instructions were suddenly cancelled due to her state of decay. This led to her being broken up at Portsmouth in the December of 1832.

HMS Egmont (1810)



HMS Egmont was another Armada Class 74-gun third rate ship of the line, built to the Peake and Rule design. She was ordered on the 13th of July, 1807 and built by Thomas Pitcher at Northfleet. Laid down in the October of 1807, she was launched on the 7th of March,1810, and completed in two stages, the first at Northfleet on the 20th of April, and the second at Woolwich on the 7th of November 1811.

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Egmont.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Egmont
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Pitcher, Northfleet
Laid down:	October 1807
Launched:	7 March 1810
Fate:	Sold, 1875
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1760 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 2 in (53.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 9 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

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Egmont and HMS Narcissus at the Fort on Villegagnon Island, Rio de Janeiro.


Service.

HMS Egmont was commissioned by Captain Charles Austin in the May of 1811, but command passed to Captain Joseph Bingham for service in the North Sea and the Channel until 1814. In 1812 she became the Flagship of Rear Admiral Edward Griffiths in North America, and then Rear Admiral Sir George Hope back in the North Sea in 1813. In 1814 she came under the command of Rear Admiral Penrose’s squadron serving under Lord Keith in the Gironde operations.
Egmont was paid off and laid up at Portsmouth in the August of 1814.

In the January of 1819, the London Gazette reported that Parliament had voted a grant to all those who had served under the command of Lord Viscount Keith between 1812 and 1814, and also in the Gironde; Egmont was listed among the vessels that had served in the Gironde.

She underwent a large repair costing £48,208 between the February of 1820 and the October of 1825, and then laid up once more.

Fate.

She was converted to serve as a store ship at a cost of £24,306 by Samuel J White between the October of 1861 and the October of 1862 and took up this role at Portsmouth only until the January of 1863, when she was transferred to Rio De Janeiro in the same guise.

HMS Armada. (1810).

HMS Armada, the name ship of her class, was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line, ordered in 20th of October 1806, and built by Isaac Blackburn at Turnchapel, Plymouth. She was laid down in the February of 1807, and launched on the 22nd of March,1810. Her fitting out was completed at Plymouth on the 27th of September of that same year. She was the first ship to carry the name.



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Armada

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	Armada
Ordered:	20 October 1806
Builder:	Blackburn, Turnchapel
Laid down:	February 1807
Launched:	22 March 1810
Fate:	Sold, 1863
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1749 ​34⁄94 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck); 145 ft (44.2 m) (keel)
Beam:	47 ft 7 1⁄2 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder Carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder carronades

Service.

HMS Armada was commissioned under Captain Adam Mackenzie in the August of 1810 for the Texel. On the 9th of November, Armada was among the vessels in sight when the 36-gun fifth rate Curacoa captured the French privateer Venus. Then on the 22nd of November, Armada was in the company of the 74-gun Northumberland when Northumberland captured the 14-gun French privateer ketch Glaneuse of Saint Maloes, which was under the command of a Dane, Anthe Haste. Glaneuse was only six months old and was six weeks into her first cruise, having made no captures.
On the 1st of February, 1811 Armada was one of a number of vessels that were in company when Hero captured the American schooner Beauty.
In the January of 1812 Captain R.F. Devonshire briefly took command. That same month he was replaced by Captain Charles Grant who then remained in command until 1814. HMS Armada sailed for the Med on the 10th of March.

On the 23rd of July 1813, the rough seas steered Armada into the range of French batteries at Borgidhero. The batteries opened fire but the shots passed over Armada who then proceeded to land her marines, taking the eastern battery and then entering the battery on the point of Borgidhero following a failed French attempt to blow it up. The marines rendered the guns unusable by spiking them all. The landing party came under fire from the nearby town so the frigates accompanying Armada turned their guns on the town, whilst the landing party burnt several vessels upon the shore. Armada only lost two men to wounds during the operation.

On the 4th of November in that year, Armada arrived off Cap Sicié and on the following day she was engaged in a fracas with a French squadron off the port of Toulon. Admiral Sir Edward Pellew's inshore squadron consisted of the 74-gun third rates Scipion, Mulgrave, Pembroke, and Armada, Captains Henry Heathcote, Thomas James Maling, James Brisbane, and Charles Grant. The 74-gun third rate Pompée, Captain Sir James Athol Wood, joined them. These vessels opened fire on the French fleet consisting of 14 sail of the line and seven frigates, which had sortied from Toulon on a training exercise. Pellew and the main body of his force soon arrived to join the fray. Neither side accomplished much as the French rapidly returned to port. Armada had no casualties though one shot did hit her, and in all the British suffered 12 men wounded by enemy fire and one man killed and two wounded in an accident. Pellew mentioned in his letter that the only reason he had reported the incident was to provide an accurate account to counteract French propaganda. The French suffered 17 wounded.

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Blockade of Toulon, 1810-1814: Pellew's action, 5 November 1813, by Thomas Luny

On the 9th of December Armada was part of a squadron under Captain Josiah Rowley aboard the HMS America, and assisted in supporting the landing of troops at Via Reggio. She had met up with the squadron, which had sailed up from Palermo, off Corsica a few days earlier. The troops, comprising 1000 men of the Italian Levy under the command of Lieut-Colonel Catanelli, marched inland and captured Lucca. They then returned to Via Reggio. There was further fighting around Pisa and Via Reggio before the expedition re-embarked aboard the British warships.

In November and December Berwick and Euryalus made a number of captures. Armada shared in the prize money by agreement with Berwick. Armada benefited from the capture of the St Anne and two French ships taken on 13 th and 16th of November, the schooner Air taken on the 11th of December, and the Antoine Camille and Resurrection taken on the17th.

On the 12th of February,1814 Armada was a part of the fleet off Toulon that chased a French squadron into that port. Armada herself did not take part in any of the consequent action.
On the 23rd of April in that year, Armada and Curacoa, together with 12 Sicilian gunboats, arrived at Savona to support a British and Sicilian force besieging the fortress there. When the French commander declined to surrender, the British warships, the gunboats and a battery commenced a cannonade. After an hour the French capitulated. Under the terms of surrender they were permitted to march out and return to Italy. The British and Sicilian force captured 110 cannon.

On the 1st of September, Armada was escorting ten merchant vessels to Gibraltar, some 200 miles west of Ushant, when the convoy encountered the sloop USS Wasp, which was operating out of Lorient. Wasp made for the convoy and singled out the brig Mary, laden with iron and brass cannon and other military stores, which she quickly captured, carrying off Mary's crew as prisoners before burning her. Wasp then attempted to take another ship in the convoy, but Armada was able to chase her off.

On returning to Plymouth at the close of September, Armada went into ordinary and underwent a small to middling repair between the April of 1815 and the January of 1816 costing £51,282.

Fate.

The Admiralty used her as a powder hulk at Keyham Point from the April of1844. An Admiralty order in 1862 mandated that her sister ship Conquestador would replace her on the 12th of November. Armada was sold out of the Navy in 1863 and broken up at Marshall's ship breaking yard Plymouth on the 27th of May of that year.

HMS America. (1810)



HMS America was an Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line designed by Peake and Rule, ordered on the 22nd of August,1807, and built by Perry, Wells, and Green at Blackwall Yard. She was laid down in the January of 1808 and launched on the 21st of April, 1810. Her completion and fitting commenced on the 11th of June at Woolwich, and was completed on the 9th of June 1811 at Sheerness.


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America

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS America
Ordered:	22 August 1807
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall Yard
Launched:	21 April 1810
Fate:	Broken up, 1869
General characteristics
Class and type:		Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1758 (bm)
Length:		176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		48 ft 6 in (14.78 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.


HMS America was commissioned by Captain Thomas Ussher in the May of 1811 and sailed for the med on the 4th of September in that year.

Between 1812 and 1814 her Captain was Josias Rowley.
On the 10th of May she was involved in the capture and destruction of a French convoy at Laiguegila. Following this action, on the 11th of June, she was part of a British squadron consisting of the frigate Curacoa, and Swallow when they intercepted another French convoy which had left Genoa on that morning, heading for Toulon. The convoy consisted of 14 merchant vessels, several gunboats, and most importantly, the brig-corvette Renard, of 16 guns, under the command of Lieutenant de vaisseau Charles Baudin, and the schooner Goéland, of 12 guns, under the command of Enseigne de vaisseau Belin. The British drove the French to take shelter at the Île Sainte-Marguerite. On the following day Swallow came close to reconnoitre, the other two British ships having to hold off because of shallow water. Although the French escorts came out when they saw Swallow becalmed, they then turned back when the winds picked up and took their convoy to Fréjus. There the French escort vessels took on board some reinforcements and then turned to engage Swallow.

A sanguine but inconclusive action ensued. Eventually, Swallow hauled off to rejoin the two larger British ships, which were coming up, while Renard and Goéland rejoined their convoy, now in the Bay of Grimaud. The action cost Swallow six men killed and 17 wounded, out of 109 men on board. Renard had a crew of 94, which had been doubled by the troops taken on at Fréjus. In all she lost 14 men killed and 28 wounded, including her captain, Lieutenant Baudin. Goéland had a crew of 113 men but her casualties are not known. She did not engage deeply in the battle, though she did exchange some fire with Swallow.
In the May of 1813 she saw service during the reduction of Genoa, and then returned home to be paid off 1n 1814.

Between the November of that year and the April of 1815 she underwent repairs at Plymouth costing £28,820, and then went into ordinary. Between small and middling repairs she was cut down by Admiralty Orders into a Fourth Rate Frigate of 50 guns. This took place between the March of 1827 and the February of 1835 at a further cost of £36,800. She then had her waist housed over and was laid up. She was refitted for sea at Plymouth in 1844 for the Pacific.

During the rising tensions with the United States over the Oregon boundary dispute, HMS America was dispatched to the Pacific Northwest in 1845. Leaving the Straits of Juan de Fuca on the 1st of October, the vessel sailed for the Kingdom of Hawaii and later the Pacific Station at Valparaíso, in Chile. While at the Pacific Station, Captain John Gordon ordered the valuable cargo of HMS Daphne be moved to his ship and departed to deliver it to the United Kingdom. For removing the second most powerful British vessel on the Pacific coast of the Americas during the Oregon crisis, Gordon was court-martialed and reprimanded.

Fate.

America returned home and was laid up inthe October of 1847 at Plymouth. She was fitted as a target ship there in the March of 1864, and moved to Portsmouth in the February of 1867 for use in torpedo experimentation. Following this she was broken up by Admiralty Orders given on the 27th of June of that year. This was completed on the 6th of February 1869.

HMS Vengeur (1810)



HMS Vengeur was a Peake and Rule Armada Class, 74 gun ship of the line, ordered on the 20th of October 1806, and built by Joseph Graham at Harwich. Laid down in the July of 1807 she was launched on the 19th of June, 1810, and completed on the 30th of October 1810 at Chatham.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Vengeur
Ordered:	20 October 1806
Builder:	Graham, Harwich
Laid down:	July 1807
Launched:	19 June 1810
Fate:	Broken up, 1843
General characteristics
Class and type:		Armada Class, 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1764 (bm)
Length:		176 ft 5 in (53.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		47 ft 9.5 in (14.6 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

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Plan for the Vengeur.



Service.

HMS Vengeur was commissioned in the September of 1810 under Captain Thomas Brown. From 1811 she became the flagship of Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke. Brown escorted to Portugal a large body of troops sent as reinforcements to the Duke of Wellington's army there. Vengeur then cruised the Western Isles to protect an inbound fleet of East Indiamen.
Brown's replacement in November 1811 was Captain James Brisbane who commanded until the August of 1812 .
On the 26th of June, 1813, she sailed for Jamaica.

Robert Tristram Ricketts took command of Vengeur there in the October of 1813.

Vengeur, Lightning, and Madagascar were in company on the 6th of March, 1814, at the recapture of the Diamond.

In the May of that year the 9th Regiment of Foot marched from Bayonne to Bordeaux and embarked on HMS York and Vengeur to sail to Quebec to add support to the British Army already in the fight against the Americans during the War of 1812.

Vengeur then joined Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane's fleet moored off New Orleans. The Commanding Officer of the Vengeur's Marine detachment, Brevet Major Thomas Adair, was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath for leading a party of 100 Royal Marines on a successful assault of the left bank of the Mississippi River. Although the strongpoint was taken, and seventeen cannon were captured, the battle was lost as the right bank remained impregnable. Of the two fatalities among the Royal Marines, one was from HMS Vengeur.

Ricketts commanded the British naval forces at the Second Battle of Fort Bowyer, the British attack on the American fort at Mobile Point in 1815. The British then attacked and captured Fort Bowyer at the mouth of Mobile Bay on 12 February. The British were making preparations to attack Mobile when news arrived of the peace treaty. The Treaty of Ghent had been ratified by the British Parliament but would not be ratified by Congress and the President until mid-February.

Captain Thomas Alexander took command in the August of 1815 and Vengeur served as a guardship at Portsmouth from the June 1816 until the May of 1818. From the October to the December of that year she was recommissioned and fitted out for sea.

Frederick Lewis Maitland took command of Vengeur’s recommissioning in the October of 1818, and in 1819 sailed her to South America. He took Lord George Beresford from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon in 1820, and then returned to the Mediterranean. He then carried Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies from Naples to Livorno, on his way to attend the Congress of Laibach (modern Ljubljana). The passage was rough and lasted seven days, but they arrived safely on 20 December. After His Majesty landed, he personally invested Maitland with the insignia of a knight-commander of the order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, and gave him a gold box with the king's portrait set in diamonds.


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Vengeur in Naples Bay with the Neapolitan flag at her main masthead, 1820, by Nicolas S. Cammillieri

Maitland and Vengeur then returned to England, arriving at Spithead on 29 March 1821. Vengeur was found to be defective and was paid off on 18 May 1821 at Chatham.

Fate.

She was fitted as a receiving ship between July 1823 and February 1824. She then travelled to Sheerness where she served as a receiving ship until 1838. She was broken there up in the August of 1843.

HMS Conquestador (1810)

HMS Conquestador was an Armada Class, Peake and Rule designed 74-gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 20th of October 1806, and built by Robert Guillaume at Northam. She was laid down in the August of 1807, and launched on the 1st of August, 1810. She was completed and fitted between the 6th of that month, and the 21st of March, 1811 at Portsmouth.

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Conquestador

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Conquestador
Ordered:	20 October 1806
Builder:	Guillam, Northam
Laid down:	August 1807
Launched:	1 August 1810
Fate:	Sold, 1897
General characteristics
Class and type:		Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1773 (bm)
Length:		176 ft 4 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		47 ft 11 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Conquestador was commissioned by Captain Lord William Stuart in the September of 1810 intended for Channel service as the Flagship of Admiral Lord Keith which duty she assumed from the May of 1812.

She spent 1814 on the West indies station and on her return to England went into ordinary at Chatham during 1815. Between the May of that year and the April of 1816 she underwent a small repair and was housed over at Woolwich for the sum of £20,783. She was then laid up once more at Sheerness. Several more small repairs were necessary between that date and 1827 when by Admiralty Orders she was cut down to a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate for £17.202.

Conquestador was loaned out to the war Department at Woolwich in the December of 1856, and then to Purfleet in 1860. She became a Powder magazine to replace Amazon by admiralty Order in the December of 1862 until the February of 1863. She then continued as such at Plymouth between 1870 and 1890.

Fate.

Conquestador was sold out of the Navy to Harry Scrawn for £1,525 on the 10th of May,1897.

HMS Edinburgh (1811)



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Edinburgh


HMS Edinburgh was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 13th of July,1807 and built by Samuel and Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe. She was laid down in the November of that year, and launched on the 26th of November,1811. Fitting and completion took place between the 7th of February and the 7th of May in that same year at Woolwich.


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A view of the Commercial Docks in 1813 by William Daniell, two years after Edinburgh was built.
A ship enters the lock and to the left and right of the lock you can see Greenland South and North shipyards,
both with ships in dock.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Edinburgh
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	November 1807
Launched:	26 November 1811
Fate:	Sold, 1866
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1772 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 6 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 10.5 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 0.5 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

Service.


HMS Edinburgh was commissioned by Captain Robert Rolles in the June of 1811.


On the 8th of January 1812 she sailed for the Med. In the November of that year she came ubder Captain George Dundas. On the 30th of May his ship took part in operations in the Gulf of Spezia, during which cruise on the 5th of October her ships boats were in action off Anzio. She was under several Captains that year, including Thomas Mainwaring,Thomas Ussher and finally John Lampen Manley.


Between the November of 1814 and 1833 she was laid up at Portsmouth. During this time several large rerpairs were undertaken costing a total of £76.778.


From the October of 1833 she was recommissioned under the command of Captain James Dacres for service in the Med until 1837.


In the July of that year she came under the captaincy of William Henderson, who undertook that position until 1841, and who commanded her at the bombardment of Acre in the 3rd of November ,1840.


In 1841 she continued her operations off the coast of Syria and Lebanon in the Syrian War until her return to England and laying up at Portsmouth in the July of that Year.


On the 22nd of October,1845 she was taken in hand at Portsmouth Dockyard by Admiralty Orders and converted into a steam-powered screw propulsion 'blockship'. The conversion was completed on 19 August 1852 and cost a total of £ 65.618 In this transformation her displacement was increased to 2,598 tons and her complement of guns reduced to 60 (or 56: reports differ).

She acted as guard ship at Devonport until the February of 1854, when she was assigned to the fleet sent to the Baltic under Sir Charles Napier. She was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Henry Ducie Chads, third in command of the fleet, and took part in the bombardment and capture of the Russian fortress of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands. She returned to the Baltic in 1855. Subsequently she was a guard ship at Sheerness from the August of 1856, and then as coast guard between the March and April of 1858 at Leith.


Fate.


She was sold out of the Navy to Castle and Beech for breaking up in the November of 1865 and this was completed at Charlton in 1866.

HMS Barham (1811)


HMS Barham was yet another Peak and Rule Armada Class 74-gun third rate ship of the line ordered on the 2nd of November, 1811, and named after Admiral Charles Middleton the first Baron Barham. Laid down in the June of 1808, she was built by Perry, Wells, and Green at Blackwall yard, and launched on the 8th of July, 1811. She was completed for ordinary at Woolwich in the February of 1812, being fitted for sea at Chatham in the May of that year.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Barham
Ordered:	2 November 1807
Builder:	Perry, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard
Laid down:	June 1808
Launched:	8 July 1811
Fate:	Rescued in Bonaire 1829, Broken up, 1839
General characteristics
Class and type:		Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1761 (bm)
Length:		176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		47 ft 9.5 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.


HMS Barham was commissioned by Captain John Spranger in the February of 1812 for service in the North Sea, although most of her completion and fitting out had been supervised by Captain Thomas Bladen Capel.


She returned to Woolwich in 1813, and then proceeded to Jamaica in 1814. She was paid off in the July of that year, underwent a small repair, and was then housed over at Woolwich between the March and September of 1815 at a total cost of £22.826.


In 1826, by Admiralty Orders, Barham was reduced to a Fourth Rate Frigate of 50-guns at a cost of £41,346
She was recommissioned in the August of that year for service in Jamaica once more. On the 29th of April, 1829 she suffered severe damage when she ran aground off Bonaire. She was refloated on the 30 April, after her crew had to throw 37 cannon overboard to lighten her burden.
On her return to England in 1830 she underwent a refit at Woolwich for £41,346 between the September of 1830 and the June of 1831 for service in the Med.

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'Barham' is shown quitting Constantinople with Sir Stratford Canning on board between 6 - 12 August 1832.

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HMS Barham at Malta on 25 September 1833.

Fate.

She was broken up at Deptford which was completed in the March of 1840

HMS Hogue. (1811)

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Hogue

HMS Hogue was an Armada Class Peak and Rule designed 74-gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 1st of October, 1806. She was built by M/shipwright Robert Nelson at Deptford Dockyard. Laid down in the December of 1809, she was launched on the 3rd of October, 1811, and completed on the 25th of January, 1812 at Woolwich.. She was named after the 1692 Battle of La Hogue. At her completion, the Hogue sported a green and chocolate lion as its figurehead, its grinning mouth displaying rows of white teeth and a lolling red tongue."

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Plans for the Hogue

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Hogue
Ordered:	1 October 1806
Builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	April 1808
Launched:	3 October 1811
Fate:	Broken up, 1865
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada class 74 gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1750 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 7.5 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 0.5 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
rmament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 10 × 32-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.

HMS Hogue was commissioned by Captain Thomas Bladen Capel in the December of 1811 for service at the Texel.
Following on from this, on the 14th of January,1813 she sailed for North America for operations in the War of 1812, as the flagship of Commodore William hotham. Whilst under the command of Captain Capel, she successfully trapped the American privateer Young Teazer off the coast off Nova Scotia. Then on the 16th of August, Hogue also captured the Portuguese ship Flor de Mar. At the time of the seizure, HMS Tenedos was in sight and, therefore, shared the prize money.

Hogue was unfortunately driven ashore at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 12th of November in that same year during a severe storm. She was, however, successfully refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

From 7–8 April 1814, ships' boats of the Hogue, Endymion, Maidstone and Borer attacked Pettipague point.
In the September of that year, Hogue landed near the Old Scituate Light station with the intent of sending a raiding party into the town. Rebecca and Abigail Bates, the lighthouse keeper's daughters, repulsed the attack by playing a drum and a fife that had been left at the station, thus convincing the raiders that a substantial garrison was in residence..

On her return to England in the following month Hogue underwent a middling to large repair at Chatham between that date and the June of 1816. This was probably due in some extent to her grounding of the previous year. The total cost of repairs was somewhere in the region of £ 41.500. Following her repair she went into ordinary at Sheerness.

Returning to Chatham in the November of 1824 she again underwent a middling repair which was completed in the March of 1826.She remained at Chatham until 1834 before returning to Sheerness.

In 1845 by Admiralty Orders she was converted into a screw guardship, by Wigram of Blackwall between the December of that year and the December of the following year at a cost of £ 36.611.

In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "8 Apr Boat Service 1814" to all surviving claimants from the action. The raid was commanded by Coote, who was promoted as a result of the successful outcome, as was Lieutenant Pyne of the Hogue who assisted him.

From 1852 she acted as a guard-ship at Devonport under the command of Captain William Ramsay and saw her final service, still under Ramsay, on duties in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. On the 18th of September 1855, she ran aground off Renskär, Sweden and was severely damaged. She was refloated with the assistance of three gunboats after her lower deck guns were taken out.

Fate.

Between the March and April of 1858 Hogue was fitted for coastguard service at Plymouth for £3,680. She was eventually broken up there in 1865.

HMS Duncan (1811)

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HMS Duncan was an Armada Class, 74 gun, third rate ship of the line designed by Peake and Rule, and built by John Dudman at Deptford. She was ordered on the 13th of July, 1807, laid down in the August of 1808, and launched on the 2nd of December,1811 at Deptford Warf. Completion took place between the 13th of that month and the 26th of February,1812.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Duncan
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Dudman, Deptford
Laid down:	August 1808
Launched:	2 December 1811
Fate:	Broken up, 1863
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1761 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 9.5 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronadesForecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

Service.

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A painting of HMS Duncan, possibly by William Anderson, date unknown, from the Royal Museums Greenwich


HMS Duncan was commissioned by Captain Robert Plampin in the February of 1812.
During the period of 1812 to 1814 she served under the command of Captain Robert Lambert in the North Sea. During 1814 she was under Captain Thomas Smith in the Med, until the September of that year when command passed to Captain Samuel Chambers.

Fate.

Duncan returned to Portsmouth and was laid up in the June of 1815. She was fitted as a Lazarette there in the July of 1826, and removed to Sheerness in the August of 1831 where she was placed on harbour service in 1834. She next moved to Chatham in February of 1837 and refitted as a Lazarette, then being moved to Stangate creek. In the November of 1861 the Customs Serviced relinquished her use and she returned to the Admiralties control at Chatham.
She was broken up in 1863. The process being completed on the 5th of October in that year.

HMS Asia (1811)

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Asia


HMS Asia was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74-gun third rate ship of the line, built by Jusiah and Thomas Brindley at Findsbury. Ordered on the 13th of July 1807, and laid down in the February of 1808, she was launched on the 2nd of December 1811, and completed on the 9th of May 1812 at Chatham.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Asia
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Brindley, Frindsbury
Laid down:	February 1808
Launched:	2 December 1811
Fate:	Broken up, 1865
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line.
Tons burthen:	1763 (bm)
Length:	175 ft 7in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 11 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

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Service.


HMS Asia was commissioned under Captain John Spranger in the February of 1812. In the following month she came under the command of Captain George Scott, but in the August of that year he was superseded by Captain Alexander Shippard.
On the 22nd of May 1813 she sailed for Jamaica, and on the 26th of July, Asia sailed from Negril as escort to a convoy on a return journey, bound for London.
Between the November of 1813 and the January of 1814 she underwent the making good of several defects before sailing for North America.

Asia was off the Chesapeake in the July of that year, having ferried The Royal Marine Artillery company of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Marines from Bermuda to the Chesapeake, During the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Asia was moored off Baltimore, along with Seahorse, Severn and Surprise. Asia was among Admiral Alexanda Cochrane’s fleet moored off New Orleans at the start of 1815. In support of the attack on New Orleans, 107 Royal Marines from Asia were disembarked.

Following her return to England, Asia was laid up at Chatham in 1816. She was renamed as HMS Alfred in 1819.

Between the November of 1822 and the August of 1828, Asia underwent a very large repair and was then reduced to a 50-gun forth rate Frigate, at a total cost of £49,219. She was fitted for sea at Chatham between the March and June of 1831, for service in the Med.

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Alfred leaving Malta Harbour 12 January 1833

On her return to England she was laid up at Sheerness in the July of 1834.
She was fitted for sea again between the October of 1841 and the February of 1842, and the fitted for a commission in the July of 1845 at Portsmouth. However, she was then laid up there once more.

Fate.


In the July of 1858 she was fitted experimentally with iron plates, for trials with a Whitworth gun. Again in between the August and November of 1862 she was fitted for armour trials at Portsmouth. Following this by Admiralty Orders given on the 10th of January,1865 she was broken up, the work being completed on the 8th of May in that year.

HMS Stirling Castle (1811)

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HMS Stirling Castle in 1780 entering Cork Harbour, by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson

HMS Stirling Castle was a Peake and Rule Armada Class 74-gun,ship of the line built by Mrs Mary Ross at Rochester. Ordered on the 12th of August, 1807, she was laid down in the July of 1808, and launched on the 31st of December, 1811, and completed between the 31st of December in that year and the 25th of February, 1812 at Chatham.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Stirling Castle
Ordered:	12 August 1807
Builder:	Ross, Rochester
Laid down:	July 1808
Launched:	31 December 1811
Fate:	Broken up, 1861
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line.
Tons burthen:	1774 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 5 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 11 in (14.52 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship.
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 10 × 32-pounder Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder Carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.

HMS Stirling Castle was commissioned by Captain Jahleel Benton for Channel service.
At the start of1813 she was commanded by Captain Augustus Brine, and then from later in the year Captain Sir Home Popham, and sailed for the East Indies on the 20th of April of that year, in order to escort the Viceroy Lord Moira to India. During the journey, Stirling Castle was in company with HMS Cormorant , which was sailing to the Cape of Good Hope.
In 1814 she came under the command of Captain William Butterfield until she was paid off in the November of that year.

Fate.

Between the January of 1816 and the May of 1819 she underwent a large repair at the cost of £66,920 at Plymouth. She was then housed over fore and aft almost down to her lower deck ports. She was fitted as a convict ship in the May of 1839. Transferred to Portsmouth in the October of 1844, she languished there until she was broken up in 1861, the job being completed on the 6th of September in that year.

HMS Mulgrave (1812)


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Mulgrave


HMS Mulgrave was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74-gun third rate ship of the line, built by John King at Upnor. Ordered on the 23rd of June 1807, she was laid down in the February of 1808 and launched on the 1st of January, 1812. She was completed on the 22nd of December in that year at Chatham.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Mulgrave
Ordered:	23 June 1807
Builder:	King, Upnor
Laid down:	February 1808
Launched:	1 January 1812
Fate:	Broken up, 1854
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun first rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1761(bm)
Length:	176 ft 1 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft9.5 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr ·Carronades ·Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

Service.


HMS Mulgrave was commissioned by Captain Thomas Maling in the September of 1812, as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Richard King. She sailed for the Med on the 22nd of April 1813. She had returned to England by the start of 1815 and went into Plymouth for a small repair between the January and March of that year at a cost of £ 16,484.


Between the March of 1816 and the October of 1819 she underwent both Middling and Large repairs. These cost £58,955. She then went into ordinary. Fitted out as a lazarette at Pembroke for £146, she was next fitted as a powder ship there in 1844 for a further cost of £1,637, and finally broken up there in 1854. This was completed on the 16th of December of that year.

HMS Cornwall (1812)


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Cornwall

HMS Cornwall was a Peak and Rule designed Armada Class 74-gun third rate ship of the line, built by Mrs Francis Barnard at Deptford. Ordered on the 30th of May 1808, she was laid down in the March of 1809, and launched on the 16th of January,1812, being completed at Woolwich on the 7th of March, and fitted at Sheerness by the 9th of September in that same year.
Cornwall was the third ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the county of Cornwall.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	Cornwall
Ordered:	30th of June 1808
Builder:	Barnard, Deptford
Laid down:	March 1809
Launched:	16 January 1812
Renamed:	Wellesley, 18 June 1868
Fate:	Broken up 1875
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 75 gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,751 ​(bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 7.75 in (14.48 m)
Draught:	17 feet 10 inches
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Sail plan:	Fullrigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·GD: 28 × 32 pdr guns ·UGD: 28 × 18 pdr guns ·QD:4 × 12 pdr guns, 10 × 32 pdr ·Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12 pdr guns, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades

Service.



HMS Cornwall was commissioned by Captain John Broughton in the July of 1812.

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In the May of 1813 she came under the command of Captain Edwars W.C.R. Owen for service in the North Sea and Channel.
In 1814 and 1815 she spent her time in ordinary at Chatham.
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, a pair of lower-deck guns were replaced by 68-pounder carronades and a pair of upper deck guns were superseded by 18-pounder carronades. The ship had a crew of 590 officers and ratings. Between the November of 1815 and the September of 1816 she underwent small repair at Woolwich,and was then laid up at Sheerness.
By Admiralty Orders given on the 27th of February 1827 Cornwall was razeed intto a 50-gun fourth rate frigate, between the March of that year and the May of 1830. Her armament was amended to twenty-eight 32-pounders on the lower gundeck, sixteen lighter 32-pounders on the upper deck and four more 32-pounders on the forecastle. Her crew was consequently reduced to 450 men. She was then laid up once more until being fitted as a reformatory in the May of 1859.

Fate.

She then went on loan to the Ship School Society at Purfleet for use as a juvenile reformatory school. On the 3rd of June, 1868, by Admiralty Orders, she moved to Newcastle upon Tyne to serve as a training ship for the Newcastle Society.
Also by Admiralty Orders, given on the 18th of June, she exchanged names with the Wellesley.

She was broken up at Sheerness in 1875.

HMS Dublin (1812)

HMS Dublin was a Peake and Rule designed 74-gun third rate ship of the line built by Samuel and Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe. She was ordered on the 31st of July 1807, laid down in the May of 1809 and launched on the 13th of February, 1812. The ship was completed at Woolwich and Sheerness between the March and September of that year.

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Dublin

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	Dublin
Ordered:	31 July 1807
Builder:	Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	May 1809
Launched:	13 February 1812
Fate:	Sold, 1885
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line.
Tons burthen:	1772 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.

HMS Dublin was commissioned by Captain David Milne during the August of 1812 and from the following month by Captain Richard Dunn until his death in the June of 1813. Temporary command was then assumed by Captain Robert Henderson, and subsequently Captain Thomas Elphinstone until 1814.

She was destined for service in the Channel and on the 17th of July, accompanied by the ex French 74 HMS Abercrombie, under the command of Captain William Charles Fahie, she successfully took the Union. Dublin later shared the proceeds of the Union with the Abercrombie.


On the following month she was laid up at Plymouth, underwent middling repairs and was cut down to a fourth rate Frigate of 50 guns between the April of 1821 and the December of 1826.Fitted for sea between the March and August of 1831 she became the Flagship at Portsmouth.


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A Ball given onboard by Admiral Hamond in 1835, painting by Emeric Essex Vidal


Fate.


In the March of1845 Dublin was refitted and then laid up in ordinary until she was sold in the July of that year to Castle and Sons for breaking up.

HMS Gloucester (1812)


HMS Gloucester was a Peak and Role designed Armada Class, 74-gun, third rate ship of the line, built by Thomas Pitcher at Northfleet. She was ordered on the 11th of June, 1808, laid down in the March of 1808, and launched on the 27th of February,1812. She was then towed to Sheerness where the ship was completed between the 20th of May and the 11th of June in that year.

Gloucester, named after the County City of Gloucestershire, was the sixth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy.
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History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Gloucester
Ordered:	11 June 1808
Builder:	Pitcher, Northfleet
Launched:	27 February 1812
Fate:	Sold, 1884
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1770​ (bm)
Length:	176 ft 3.5 in (53.7 m))
Beam:	47 ft 10.5 in (14.6 m)
Draught:	17 feet 5.5 inches (5.3 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pdr cannon ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pdr cannon · ·QD: 4 × 12-pdr cannon, 10 × 32-pdr Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pdr cannon, 2 × 32-pdr Carronades ·PD: 6 × 18-pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Gloucester was commissioned by Captain Robert Williams in the April of 1812 until 1812, for duty in the North Sea and later in the Baltic, and in 1814 when she proceeded to the West Indies. On her return to England she was laid up in ordinary at Chatham from the January of 1815 until 1822.
During this period she underwent a large repair and was rebuilt with a circular stern. She was then fitted as a Flagship at Chatham. She was recommissioned under Captain Sir Murray Maxwell in the November of that same year.

In the October of 1823 command passed to Captain Sir Edward Owen as Flagship of James Lillicrap in Jamaica. She was paid off again in the April of 1824 and was next fitted at Sheerness to convey the Duke of Devonshire to Russia between the July of 1825 and the May of 1826.
On her return defects were made good at Sheerness between the August of 1827 and January of 1828 at a cost of £10,934. A small repair followed and then by Admiralty Orders of the 28th of February 1831 she was cut down to a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate at Chatham between the April of1831and the December of 1832.

Fate.

Gloucester was fitted for ordinary in the January of 1833, and in 1858 refitted as a receiving ship at Chatham between the May of that year and the August of 1861.

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The hulk Gloucester and HMS Volage at Chatham, sometime between1861 and 1884.

She was sold to Castle for scrap in May 1884, and was broken up.

HMS Scarborough (1812)


HMS Scarborough was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74-gun third rate ship of the line, built by Joseph Graham of Harwich. Ordered on the 13th of July 1807, she was laid down in the January of 1808, and launched on the 29th of March, 1812.She was then completed between the 15th of May in that year and the 18th of March, 1813 at Portsmouth.

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Scarborough

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Scarborough
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Graham, Harwich
Laid down:	January 1808
Launched:	29 March 1812
Fate:	Sold, 1836
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1745 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 8.5 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 0.5 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr ·Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

Service.

Scarborough was commissioned by Captain John Halstead, in the February of 1813 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral John Ferrier in the North Sea. In 1814 she came under Captain Charles James Johnson, but in the June of that year she was fitted for ordinary at Sheerness. After a middling repair at Woolwich costing £24,215, carried out between the July of 1816 and the October of 1817, she was laid up again at Sheerness and roofed over both fore and aft.

Fate.

Scarborough was sold out of the Navy for £ 6,200 on the 3rd of September,1836.

HMS Clarence (1812)



HMS Clarence was a Peak and Rule designed Armada Class, 74-gunthird rate ship of the line, built by Isaac Blackburn at Turnchapel, Plymouth. Ordered on the 13th of July, 1807, and laid down in the November of that year, she was launched on the 11th of April, 1812, and completed between the 12th of April and the 9th of September in that same year at Plymouth.


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Clarence

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Clarence
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Blackburn, Turnchapel
Laid down:	November 1807
Launched:	11 April 1812
Fate:	Broken up, 1828
General characteristics
Class and type:		Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line.
Tons burthen:		1749 (bm)
Length:		176 ft 0.25 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		47 ft 7.5 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 3-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.


HMS Clarence was commissioned by Captain Henry Vansittart in the July of 1812 for service in the North Sea and English Channel. Clarence was among a number of vessels that shared in the proceeds of the recapture of Wolf's Cove on 1 December 1813.


In the March of 1814 she came under the command of Captain Frederic Warren. She was laid up in the August of that year at Portsmouth.


Fate.

By Admiralty Orders given on the 26th of May, 1827 she was renamed Centurion, and ordered to be cut down to a Fourth rate Frigate of 50 guns and in the August of that year she was moved to Chatham prior to the work being carried out. However, when examined, due to her state of decay the conversion was cancelled, and she was broken up there in the October of 1828.

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HMS Anson (1812)

HMS Anson was a Peake and Rule designed Amada Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Thomas Steemson at Paull near Kingston-upon-Hull. Ordered on the 2nd of November 1807, she was laid down in the March of 1808 and launched on the11th of May,1812. Completion took place between the 2nd of July, and the 11th of August of that same year at Portsmouth.

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Anson

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Anson
Ordered:	2 November 1807
Builder:	Steemson, Hull
Launched:	11 May 1812
Fate:	Broken up, 1851
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1742 (bm)
Length:	175 ft 5.5 (53.95 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	48 ft 4.5 in (14.8 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder Carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.

HMS Anson was not commissioned but laid up in ordinary in 1812. She was coppered in the February of 1815, and had a small repair performed at Portsmouth, then being fitted as a temporary lazarette at a cost of £19,663 in the September of 1831. In 1834 she was moved to Leith, and in 1837 to Stangate Creek. She was placed on harbour service in 1839.
Fitted as a convict ship at Chatham for a cost of £19,177 between the May and August of 1843, she then carried 499 male convicts, plus a crew of 326, to Hobart, Tasmania. This was the greatest number of convicts to ever leave England on one ship. She arrived in Hobart on the 4th of February,1844.

Fate.

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Anson served the next seven years there as a probation ship for female convicts, and was finally broken up there in 1851, the scrap being sold in three separate sales in 1852,realizing £387.0.8d.

HMS Pembroke (1812)

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Pembroke



HMS Pembroke was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line, built initially by Perry, Wells, and Green, who from 1810 became Wigram, Wells, and Green of Blackwall Yard. Ordered on the 17th of May, 1808, and laid down in the March of 1809, she was launched on the 27th of June, 1812. She was completed on the 5th of November, 1812 at Woolwich.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Pembroke
Ordered:	17 May 1808
Builder:	Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard
Laid down:	March 1809
Launched:	27 June 1812
Fate:	Sold, 1905
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1758 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 9 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.


HMS Pembroke was commissioned under Captain James Brisbane in the September of 1812. Pembroke was driven ashore on Dunnose near Portsmouth on the 26th of December in that year, and was refloated on the 29th of December, by the Frigates HMS Niobe and HMS Pomone, plus the Cormorant Class ship sloop HMS Rosamond. Her defects were made good at Portsmouth for a total of £13,465 between the last days of December of that year and the February of 1813. She then proceeded to the Channel, and in 1814 to the Med, as part of a squadron under the command of the now Sir James Brisbane. On the 11th of April, Pembroke, in company with the Alcmene and Aigle, captured Fortune, Notre Dame de Leusainte, and a settee of unknown name, at Fort Maurigio, in the Gulf of Genoa, near Monaco. The squadron silenced the fort's guns, and attacked 20 vessels, 4 of which were captured, and the cargoes of a further 15 taken from ships whose crews had attempted to scuttle them.

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Squadron under the command of Sir J Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio 1814


By August Pembroke was back in Portsmouth and was laid up, being paid off in the following month. Between the January of 1819 and the February of 1823 she underwent a middling to large repair at a cost of £57,316. Her next outing was after she had been fitted for sea between the January and July of 1836 for service in the the Med. Recommissioning being carried out in the March of that year. Pembroke was then assigned to an experimental squadron, which was a group of ships sent out in the 1830s and 1840s to test new techniques in ship design, armament, building, and propulsion. In the March of 1837, Pembroke was driven ashore at Gibraltar, but was later successfully refloated with assistance from the French steamship Minos.



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HMS Pembroke in a squall, 12 April 1839

In 1840 she was once again placed into ordinary at Portsmouth.


Pembroke was fitted as a blockship with screw propulsion at Portsmouth between the October of 1854 and the May of 1855 for an outlay of £ 22,751. In the November of 1856 she was fitted for Guardship duties a Sheerness. On the16th of September 1857, she ran down and sank the British Brig Lady Sale off the Isle of May. The Admiralty Court found that Pembroke was culpable for the collision. She was transferred to the Coastguard in the following year, and then used as a base ship at Chatham from the April of1873.

Fate.

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In 1889 she was renamed HMS Forte as a receiving hulk, and then reverted to Pembroke in 1891. The ship was eventually sold out of the navy in 1905 and broken up at Stavanger in the July of that year.

HMS Rippon (1812)


HMS Rippon was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Richard Blake & John Scott at Bursledon. Ordered on the2nd of November, 1807 and laid down in the October of 1808. She was launched on the 8th of August, 1812. Completion took place between the 10th of that month and the 12th of May, 1813 at Portsmouth.

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Plan showing a part midships section for Rippon

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Rippon
Ordered:	2 November 1807
Builder:	Blake & Scott, Bursledon
Laid down:	October 1808
Launched:	8 August 1812
Fate:	Broken up 1821
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1770 (bm)
Length:	·Overall:176 ft 4 in (53.7 m) ·Keel:145 ft 1 3⁄4 in (44.2 m)
Beam:	47 ft 10 1⁄2 in (14.6 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 0 1⁄2 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·PD: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.


HMS Rippon was commissioned by Captain Sir Christopher Cole in the March of 1813, for Channel service.

On the 30th of September, 1813, the French 40 gun Frigate Weser, under the command of Captain Cantzlaat, sailed from the Texel for the North Sea. There she captured two Swedish ships before a gale on the 16th of October blew away both her main and mizzen masts. Two days later, HMS Scylla commanded by Captain Colin Macdonald encountered Weser 60 leagues west of Ushant, making her way towards Brest under jury rig. Rather than engage her and risk being severely damaged in her turn, and thus unable to follow her given the weather conditions, Macdonald decided to simply shadow the Frenchman.

Fortuitously, on the 20th of October HMS Royalist, commanded by Captain J.J. Gordon Bremer, hove into view, and Macdonald and Bremer decided to force the issue with Weser. They engaged her for about an hour and a half before they had to withdraw to make good damage and repair their rigging. At about this time a third British vessel, Christopher Cole’s Rippon, arrived on the scene. Bremer joined Cole and explained the situation to him, whilst Scylla continued to observe the Weser.
The following morning, as Rippon and Royalist sailed to join Scylla,fully intending to renew their attack. Weser approached Rippon and struck her colours, after first firing two broadsides in the direction of Scylla. Scylla suffered only two men wounded in the entire engagement. Royalist suffered slightly more heavily, having two men killed and nine wounded. Weser lost four men killed and 15 wounded.

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Weser


Rippon took Weser's crew on board as prisoners of war and towed her into port. She was later taken into service by the Royal Navy as HMS Weser.

In 1814 Rippon sailed with troops to North America.

Fate.

On her return to England in the August of that year, Rippon was paid off into ordinary at Plymouth. In the August of 1816 she was roofed over. She was broken up there in the March of 1821.

HMS Devonshire (1812)

HMS Devonshire was a Peake and Rule designed Amazon Class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Mrs. Francis Barnard at Deptford. Ordered on the 30th of May, 1808 and laid down in the February of 1810, she was launched on the 23rd of September, 1812. Completion took place between the 27th of September and the 2nd of December of that year at Woolwich.


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Devonshire

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Devonshire
Ordered:	30 May 1808
Builder:	Barnard, Deptford
Laid down:	February 1810
Launched:	23 September 1812
Fate:	Broken up, 1869
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1741 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 0.5 in (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Devonshire was commissioned by Captain Ross Donnelly in the June of 1813, and paid off in the June of 1814 into ordinary at Sheerness until 1839. During this time she underwent one large repair at Woolwich from the March of 1817 until the February of 1820 at a cost of £53,889. She spent the years between 1842 and 1850 at Chatham. Between the July and November of 1849 she was fitted as a temporary Hospital ship for merchant seamen and lent to the Greenwich Seamen’s Hospital. In the June of 1854 Devonshire was moved to Sheerness to be used as a prison hulk for Russian POW. From 1860 to
1865 she was used as a School ship in Queenborough Swale.

Fate.

Devonshire was broken up at Sheerness, by Admiralty Orders which had been given on the 6th of October 1868. The work being completed in the June of 1869.

HMS Medway (1812)


HMS Medway was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74-gun ship of the Line, built by Thomas Pitcher at Northfleet,. Ordered on the 19th of August, 1807 she was laid down in the December of 1808 and launched on the 19th of November, 1812. Completion was carried out between the 29th of December of that year and the 9th of July 1813 at Sheerness.

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History
GREATY BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Medway
Ordered:	19 August 1807
Builder:	Pitcher, Northfleet
Laid down:	December 1808
Launched:	19 November 1812
Fate:	Sold, 1865
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1768 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 1in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 10 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder CarronadesFc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder Carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.

HMS Medway was commissioned by Captain Augustus Brine in the May of 1813, as the Flagship of Vice Admiral Charles Tyler. On the 31st of December of that year she sailed for the East Indies.

At 7am on the 4th of July, 1814, Medway still under the command of Captain Brine encountered the United States 16 gun Brig Syren. An eleven hour chase ensued, with the Syren's crew throwing their cannons, anchors and ballast overboard in the hope of escaping the pursuing British vessel. Their efforts were ineffectual and the American vessel was surrendered at sunset. Her crew of 137 men were taken prisoner, and her cargo of ivory impounded and later paid out to Medway's crew as prize money for the capture.

On Medway’s return to England in the March of 1816 she was laid up at Plymouth and housed over from the main mast forrard. Between the May of 1819 and December of 1820 she underwent repairs at a cost of £48,574. before being laid up once more.

Medway was converted into a prison ship between the May and October of 1847 to serve at the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland island in Bermuda.

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Ireland island woodcut.

The colony had been selected for development as the primary British naval and military base in the North American and West Indian region following the loss of all British ports between Nova Scotia and the West Indies on the American colonies achieving their Independence. Bermuda's manpower was almost entirely devoted to shipbuilding and seafaring, and the shortage of cheap manual labour led the Admiralty to deport convicts from British and Irish prisons to work on the Island. They were housed in hulks similar to the Medway. Conditions for the convicts were harsh, and discipline was nothing short of draconian.

In 1849, convict James Cronin, housed on the Medway, was placed in solitary confinement for fighting. On release, and being returned to work, he refused to be cross-ironed. He ran out onto the breakwater, threateningly brandishing a poker . For this action, he was ordered to receive punishment on Tuesday the 3rd of July, whilst the other convicts aboard the hulk were assembled behind a rail to witness the sentence being administered. When instructed to strip off his shirt, he hesitated. Thomas Cronin, his older brother,then addressed him, and whilst brandishing a knife, rushed forward to the separating rail. He called out to the other prisoners in Gaelic inciting them, and many joined him in attempting to not only free the prisoner but to also attack the assembled officers. The officers then gave orders to opened fire. Two men were killed and twelve wounded. Order having been restored, the punishment of James Cronin was then carried out. Three hundred men of the 42nd, Highland Regiment of Foot, in barracks on Ireland Island, responded to the riot under arms.

Fate.

Medway was sold out of the Navy to J. D. Murphy on the 2nd of November 1865 for the sum of £2,180.

HMS Indus (1812)

HMS Indus was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by John Dudman at Deptford Warf. Ordered on the 31st of July, 1807,she was laid down in the April of 1809 and launched on the19th of December,1812. Completion took place between the 29th of December of that year and the 30th of March 1813 at Woolwich.

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Indus

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Indus
Ordered:	31 July 1807
Builder:	Dudman, Deptford Warf
Laid down:	April 1809
Launched:	19 December 1812
Fate:	Broken up, 1868
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1756 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 3.5 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 8 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Indus was commissioned by Captain William Gage in the February of 1813 for service in the North Sea. In 1814 she sailed for the Med, returning in the August of that year to be laid up at Plymouth.

On the third of November 1818 by Admiralty Orders she was renamed Bellona and during the following year underwent a middling repair at Plymouth taking from the April of that year until the December of 1820 at a cost of £32,731. She was then housed over from her Main mast forrard.

Between 1841 and 1842 she was fitted as a receiving ship.

Fate.

By Admiralty Orders issued on the 28th of April 1868 the ship was eventually broken up. This work being completed on the 27th of June in that same year.

HMS Benbow (1813)

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HMS Benbowdepicted on a vase.

HMS Benbow was a Peake and Rule designed Amazon Class, 74 gun, ship of the line, built by Samuel and Daniel Brent of Rotherhithe. She was ordered on the 11th of June 1808, laid down in the July of that year and launched on the 3rd of February, 1813. Completion took place, at Deptford and fitting out at Woolwich between the 6th of February and the 17th of May of that year.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Benbow
Ordered:	11 June 1808
Builder:	Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	July 1808
Launched:	3 February 1813
Fate:	Broken up, 1895
Notes:	Coal hulk from August 1859
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class, 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1773 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 3.5 in (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 11 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder Carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades

Service.
HMS Benbow was commissioned by Captain Richard Pearson in the April of 1813. She was laid up at Portsmouth in the September of the following year and went into ordinary until 1839. During this time she underwent middling to large repairs costing £55,834 and was fitted as a demonstration ship from the February of 1836 to the July of 1837.

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Study of HMS 'Benbow in Portsmouth Harbour, 1826

Between the April and June of 1839 she was fitted for sea at a cost of £14,600 and was recommissioned under Captain Houston Stewart for service in the Med. In 1840 Benbow saw action in the bombardment of the city of Acre under the command of Admiral Robert Stopford on the 3rd of November in that year. At the height of the battle either Benbow or the naval steamer HMS Gorgon fired the shell that destroyed Acre's powder magazine, causing an explosion that greatly wreaked havoc on the city's defences.
On her return to England she was laid up at Sheerness in the May of 1842. She was fitted as a Marine Barracks at Woolwich for use at Sheerness in the February of 1848 and then as a prison ship for Russians in the September of 1854.

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Benbow as a prison hulk

Fate.

In the August of 1859, she was converted to be used as a coal hulk at Chatham for Sheerness. In 1892, after 79 years of service, she was sold out of the Navy to Castle, and was broken up in 1895 at Woolwich.

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The breaking up of Benbow.

HMS Cornwallis (1813)

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Leaving Plymouth harbour

HMS Cornwallis was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Jamsetjee Bomanjee at Bombay Dockyard. Ordered on the 25th of July, 1810, and laid down in 1811, she was launched on the 12th of May, 1813 at Bombay. Like so many Indian built ships Cornwallis was built of teak. The unfortunate capture of the Java by USS Constitution delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Cornwallis
Ordered:	25 July 1810
Builder:	Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, Bombay Dockyard
Laid down:	1812
Launched:	12 May 1813
Fate:	Broken up, 1957
General characteristics
Class and type:	Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1809 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr Carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Cornwallis was placed under the command of Captain Henry Edghill for passage to England. She arrived at Deal on the 31st of May, 1814, having escorted several East Indiamen, including the Baring, Charles Mills, and Fairlie, plus two whalers, which included the Indispensable. From there she sailed to Portsmouth where she arrived on the 9th of June. Her completion took place there between the October of 1814 and the 25th of December in that year.
She was commissioned in the December of that year under Captain John Bayley as the Flagship of Rear Admiral George Burlton who unfortunately died on the 21st of September, 1815. However prior to this on the 27th of April, Cornwallis engaged the American 20 gun sloop USS Hornet, which had mistaken Cornwallis for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, Hornet was forced to retire, the crew having jettisoned boats, guns and other equipment in order to escape.

On her return to Plymouth later in the year, Cornwallis was placed in ordinary until 1832 when she was fitted for commission but not for sea.
Between the March and June of 1836 she was finally fitted for sea at a cost of £10,102, and in the following February commissioned for service in North America and the West Indies until the year 1839. She was then fitted as a demonstration ship from the July anf August of that year.
Between the April and July of 1841 she was fitted for sea at Plymouth for £10,971 and dispatched to the East Indies to take part in the First China war.

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HMS Cornwallis and the British squadron in China

After China's defeat in the First Opium War, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated a peace treaty aboard HMS Cornwallis in Nanjing. On the 29th of August, 1842, British representative Sir Henry Pottinger and Qing representatives, Qiying, Yilibu and Niujian, signed the Treaty of Nanking aboard her, in which China paid the British an indemnity, ceded the territory of Hong Kong, and agreed to establish a “fair and reasonable” tariff.


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Treaty of Nanking

In 1852 Cornwallis was fitted as an Army depot ship intended for Hong Kong, but never dispatched.
Cornwallis was fitted with screw propulsion and reduced to 60 gun blockship in 1855, at a cost of £39521. This included £12,039 to Penn for machinery. The work was carried out between the October of 1854 and the April of 1855. She was then recommissioned for operations in the Baltic during the second year of the Crimean War, where she was commanded by George Wellesley, the nephew of the Duke of Wellington, and destined to become a future Admiral and First Sea Lord.
On the 6th of August, Cornwallis took part in the bombardment of Sveaborg. The Anglo-French fleet lead by Admirals Richard S. Dundas on Duke of Wellington and Charles Penaud on Tourville arrived at Sveaborg and grouped themselves at an appropriate distance from the fortress. In the morning of August the 9th they began shelling the fortress. The fire from the fleet was extremely severe, whilst the cannons in Sveaborg were so outdated, that they only could return the fire at a close range and were not able to reach the ships.

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The bombardment of Sveaborg.

Following the conclusion of hostilities Cornwallis was engaged in Coast Guard service on the Humber from 1857 to 1864.

Fate.

She was hulked as a Jetty at Sheerness in 1865. In the March of 1916 she was renamed HMS Wildfire and used as a base ship. She was finally broken up there in 1957, some 144 years after her launching.