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

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HMS Repulse (1803)



Repulse


HMS Repulse was the name ship of her class which were 74-gun third rate ships of the line designed by Sir William Rule. She was ordered on the 4th of February 1800, and laid down in the September of that year. She was built by Mrs Francis Barnard and Co. at Deptford Green, and launched on the 22nd of July,1803.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Repulse
Ordered:	4 February 1800
Builder:	Barnard, Deptford
Laid down:	September 1800
Launched:	22 July 1803
Fate:	Broken up, 1820
Notes:	·Participated in: ·Battle of Cape Finisterre
General characteristics
Class and type:	Repulse class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1727 ​23⁄94 (bm)
Length:	174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft (6.1 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.

HMS Repulse was commissioned in the July of 1803 under Captain Arthur Legge who commanded her until 1807, from the November of that year as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Russell at Yarmouth.

She served at the blockade of Ferrol in 1805, and was at the action resulting in the Battle of Cape Finisterre on the 22nd of August of that year. Despite having her Bowsprit shot away, her casualty list was light, amounting to just four wounded.

During 1806 Repulse was employed in going in search of Leissegues and Willaumez.

In 1807 the ship served in the Mediterranean squadron under Vice-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth and Vice-Admiral Harry Riddick during both the Dardanelles Operation, and in the Alexandria expedition.

In 1809 she experienced her first chang of captain, when John Halliday took over from Legge for the Walcheren operations, and then sailed for the Med under his command, and subsequently took part in the blockade of Toulon, and on the 31st of August in that year, the rescue of Philomel.

In 1811 Repulse had her third commander in the form of Captain Richard Hussey Moubray. Still in the Med she was involved in the boat attack on Morgion on the 2nd of May, 1813.

Fate.

Repulse was paid off in the June of 1814, fitted for ordinary at Plymouth in the following month and finally broken up there in the September of 1820.