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

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HMS Plantagenet (1801)





Plantagenet



HMS Plantagenet was a 74 gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 6th of November 1794. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the 'large class' 74s, and was the only ship built in her class. As a large 74, she carried 24-pounder guns on her upper gun deck instead of the 18-pounder guns found on the middling and common class 74s. Laid down in the November of 1798 she was built at Woolwich Dockyard by M/Shipwright John Tovery until the July of 1801, and then completed by Edward Sison

She was launched on the 22nd of October,of that year.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Plantagenet
Ordered:	6 November 1794
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	November 1798
Launched:	22 October 1801
Fate:	Broken up, 1817
General characteristics
Class and type:	Plantagenet Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1777 (bm)
Length:	181 ft (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft (14 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns ·QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Service.


HMS Plantagenet was commissioned in the March of 1803 under Captain George Hammond for Channel service.

Later on In 1803, on the 24th of July she took the 4 gun Privateer Le Coureur de Terre Neuve and then on the 27th of that month accompanied by Rosario, she captured the French privateer sloop Atalante, of 22 guns, after a chase of nine hours. The Royal Navy took Atalante into service as HMS Hawke.

After this she proceeded to the Bay of Biscay now under the command of Captain Michael De Courcy.

She then returned to Plymouth and was fitted for Foreign service during the January and February of 1804


In June 1804 Plantagenet, under De Courcy, escorted the China Fleet of the British East India Company from Saint Helena back to England. This was the fleet that had scared off a French squadron of warships in the Battle of Pulo Aura.




The fleet of the East India Company homeward bound from China engaging and repulsing a French squadron near the Straits of Malacca, on 15 February 1804.


In the October of that year had received a new commander in the person of Captain Francis Pender and was back out in the Channel . During 1805 she had another change of Captain. The new commander was Captain William Bradley who continued in this role until 1809. On the 29th of August, 1807 she took the 2 gun Privateer L’Incomparable, and following this she sailed for Portugal on the 15th of November. She was with Sydney Smith’s squadron at both Lisbon and in the Tagus and finally at Courruna in the January of 1809.


She then sailed for the Baltic, and was under Captain Thomas Eyles from 1810 until 1812. On the 27th of September in that year Plantagenet and Daphne shared in the capture of the Danish schooner Toujours Fidele.
In the February of 1812, now under Captain Robert Lloyd she was preparing to sail for North America which she did on the 10th of March 1813 to take part in the war against the USA. As the ship was moored near Norfolk, Virginia, attempts were made to destroy her with the inventor Robert Fulton’s torpedoes, but this attempt failed.


On 16 December 1813, Planagenet's boats captured the American letter of marque schooner Rapid, off Havana. Rapid, Captain James Frazier, had been launched at Talbot County, Maryland in 1813. She was of 115 tons (bm), had a crew of 20, and was armed with one nine-pounder gun.
On the 26th of September 1814 her boats along with those of others made an unsuccessful attack on the US Privateer General Armstrong at Fayal. Shortly after this with the conclusion of hostilities she returned home and went into ordinary.



USS President and HMS Plantagenet February 1814

British ships Plantagenet, Rota and Carnation attack the American privateer General Armstrong on 26 October 1814 at Fayol (the Azores)


Fate.


Plantagenet was broken up at Portsmouth in the May of 1817.