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

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HMS FAME (1805)



Fame



HMS Fame was a 74-gun third rateship of the line, the name ship of her class, designed by Sir John Henslow, ordered on the 15th of October 1799, and built at Deptford Dockyard by M/shipwright Edward Tippett until the March of 1803 and then completed by Henry Peake . She was constructed on the same building slip as was HMS Courageux, her keel having been ordered to be laid down on it immediately after the other ship's launch on the 26th of March,1800. The first elements of her keel were not finally laid down until the 22nd of January 1802, and Fame was launched on the 8th of October, 1805.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Fame
Ordered:	15 October 1799
Builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	22 January 1802
Launched:	8 October 1805
Fate:	Broken up, 1817
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fame Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1745 (bm)
Length:	175 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 8 in (14.53 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: 14 × 9 pdrs ·Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

Service.

HMS Fame was commissioned inthe October of 1805 by Captain Graham Moore.
In the May of 1806 she was placed under the command of Captain Richard Bennett from then until 1809. By the Autumn of 1806 she was in the squadron of Sir John Borlase Warren in the pursuit of Willaumez, and then sailed for the Med on the 28th of June 1807, and then back to the Channel later in that year.

In the November of 1808, whilst still under the command of Captain Bennet, Fame joined a squadron lying off Rosas, where Captain Lord Cochrane was assisting the Spanish in the defence of Castell de la Trinitat against the invading French army. Boats from Fame helped evacuate Cochrane's garrison forces after the fort's surrender on the 5th of December.

During 1810 Fame came under the command of two new Captains. First it was Captain Philip Hornby, and then by the November of that year Captain Walter Bathurst until 1814.She sailed to the Med in 1811 and just for for a month from October to November came under acting Captain Abel Ferris before reverting to Bathurst again.

Fate.

Fame was laid up in ordinary at Chatham in1815, where she was broken up in the September of 1817.