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    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.




    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 ​3494 (bm)
    Length: 176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck); 145 ft (44.2 m) (keel)
    Beam: 47 ft 7 12 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.


    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.
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    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.



    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.
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    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


    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.




    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.
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    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.


    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.
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    HMS Edinburgh (1811)




    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.




    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 yo
    u 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.
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    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.



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



    HMS Barham at Malta on 25 September 1833.

    Fate.

    She was broken up at Deptford which was completed in the March of 1840
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    HMS Hogue. (1811)


    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."


    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.
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    HMS Duncan (1811)





    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.


    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.
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    HMS Asia (1811)


    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



    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.


    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.
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    HMS Stirling Castle (1811)


    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.
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    HMS Mulgrave (1812)



    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.

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    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.

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    HMS Cornwall (1812)




    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.




    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.
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    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.



    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.




    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.
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    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.


    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.
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    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.


    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.
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    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.





    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.


    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.



    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.
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    HMS Pembroke (1812)


    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.


    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.





    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.




    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.
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    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.




    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 34 in (44.2 m)
    Beam: 47 ft 10 12 in (14.6 m)
    Depth of hold: 21 ft 0 12 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.


    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.
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    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.



    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.
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    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.

    Medway


    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.


    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.
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    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.


    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.
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    HMS Benbow (1813)


    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.


    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.


    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.


    The breaking up of Benbow.
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    HMS Cornwallis (1813)


    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.


    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.



    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.


    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.
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    HMS Blenheim (1813)


    HMS Blenheim

    HMS Blenheim was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class 74 gun Third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Robert Nelson at Deptford Dockyard. Ordered on the 4th of January, 1808, and laid down in the August of that year, she was launched on the 31st of May, 1813 and completed between the 10th of June and the 22nd of July in that same year at Woolwich.
    History
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    Name: HMS Blenheim
    Ordered: 4 January 1808
    Builder: Deptford Dockyard
    Laid down: August 1808
    Launched: 31 May 1813
    Fate: Broken up, 1865
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
    Tons burthen: 1747 tons (bm)
    Length: 175 ft 9in (54 m) (gundeck)
    Beam: 47 ft 8 in (14.49 m)
    Depth of hold: 21 ft 0.5 in (6.4 m)
    Propulsion: Sails, 1847 Steam Screw
    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 Blenheim was commissioned by Captain Samuel Warren in the June of 1813, and in the following year proceeded to the Med.
    1n 1815 she was paid off and went into ordinary at Chatham, and later at Sheerness. Between the May of 1820 and the December of 1824 she was at Woolwich undergoing a large repair at a cost of £41,484, and thence to Portsmouth in 1830. Blenheim was placed on harbour service in 1831.


    HMS Blenheim 1825?
    https://military.wikia.org/wiki/HMS_Blenheim_(1813)


    Used as a demonstration ship at Sheerness between the January and June of 1836, she was next fitted for sea service there between the April and the July of 1839.
    Recommissioned in the April of 1839 for the China War , her Captain, Humphrey Fleming Stenhouse, died on board Blenheim on the morning of the 13th of June,1841, from fever contracted during operations at Canton in the preceding month.
    By Admiralty Orders, issued on the 20th of October 1845, HMS Blenheim was converted to a screw blockship by Wigram at Blackwall between the November of that year and the March of 1847 with the machinery provided by Stewart for a total cost of £ 58,798.

    On the 20th of March, Blenheim was in collision with the British Brig Cactus on the River Thames and was driven ashore on the Essex bank. The tug Monkey attempted to refloat her, but Blenheim and the tug collided and Blenheim was next driven into the Brig Agility, which was severely damaged. Monkey assisted in beaching Agility on the Essex bank to prevent her from sinking. Blenheim subsequently was refloated and moved to Woolwich where she was fitted for sea between the end of March and the May of that year. After transferring to Portsmouth, she was again fitted for sea between the Janury and March of 1854. Later that year she again saw service in the Baltic, in her new guise as as a 60 gun steam powered screw vessel. During this service a 32-pounder cannonball struck and became embedded in her mast in 1855.


    Mast with cannonball from 1855, on exhibit at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich.


    Fate.

    After her return to England, in the May of 1858 she was fitted as a coastguard ship at Portsmouth. Blenheim then transferred to Portland where she remained until 1860. She then transferred to Pembroke until 1865 when the ship was broken up.
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    HMS Vindictive (1813)


    HMS Vindictive

    HMS Vindictive was a Peake and Rule Armada Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Nicholas Diddams at Portsmouth Dockyard. Ordered on the 13th of January, 1806, she was laid down in the July of 1808, and launched on the 30th of November, 1813. She was completed and went straight into ordinary in the December of that year.

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    Name: HMS Vindictive 1813
    Ordered: 15 January 1806
    Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
    Laid down: July 1808
    Launched: 30 November 1813
    Fate: Sold, 1871
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
    Tons burthen: 1757 (bm)
    Length: 176 ft 2 in (53.70 m) (gundeck)
    Beam: 47 ft 8.5 in (14.542 m)
    Depth of hold: 21 ft (6.4 m)
    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.

    Vindictive was the lead ship of the 40-vessel Armada class. In fact she was ordered prior to the design for this class being finalized; however, she was delayed in construction, and was not completed until the December of 1813. With the end of the Napoleonic War in prospect, she was not required for active service and was immediately placed into ordinary. In the December of 1816 she was fitted for the use of the Cin C of the ordinary. From 1828 to 1833, Vindictive still in ordinary, had been reduced to a 50 gun fourth rate by the October of 1832. and having been fitted for sea at Portsmouth, Vindictive was finally commissioned in the September of 1841. On the 26th of January 1842, she ran aground on The Dean, in the Channel off the Isle of Wight. She was refloated the next day. She was laid up in ordinary again in the June of 1848 at Portsmouth.

    Fate.



    In 1861 she was fitted as a Storeship by J. Samuel White of Cowes, and in 1862 she proceeded to Fernando Po. where she took up that role. She foundered there in July 1871, the wreck being sold to be broken up on 24 November 1871.
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    HMS Rochefort (1814)


    Rochefort during the internment of Sir Thomas Freemantle on the 22nd of December, 1819, at Baia Bay, Naples.


    HMS Rochefort was a Jean-Louis Barrallier designed Rochefort Class, 74 gun third rate ship of the line She was built at Milford Haven by M/shipwright William Stone from the 1st of July,1810 until the 9th of June, 1813, and thereafter briefly Henry Canham until the 16th of August of that year, the ship being completed by Edward Churchill. Ordered on the 1st of June, 1809, she was laid down in the the August of that year, and launched on the 6th of August, 1814. She was designed by the French émigré Jean-Louis Barrallier, and was the only ship built to her draught, the only other vessel ordered being the Sandwich which was cancelled on the 22nd of March 1811.

    History
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    Name: HMS Rochfort
    Ordered: 1 June 1809
    Builder: Barrallier, Milford Haven
    Laid down: August 1809
    Launched: 6 August 1814
    Fate: Broken up, 1826
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Rochefort Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line
    Tons burthen: 2081 (bm)
    Length: 192 ft 8.5 in (58.738 m) (gundeck)
    Beam: 49 ft 4.5 in (15.050 m)
    Depth of hold: 21 ft 10 in (6.4 m)
    Propulsion: Sails
    Sail plan: Full Rigged ship
    Armament:
    • 74 guns:
    • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
    • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
    • QD: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr Carronades
    • Fc: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr Carronades
    • PD: 6 × 18 pdr Carronades

    Service
    .

    HMS Rochefort was commissioned by Captain Sir Archibald Dixon on the 7th of August 1815, for the Med, as Flagship to Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Freemantle between 1816 and 1819. In 1818 command was taken over by Captain Sir Andrew Green.

    From the May of that year she temporarily became a guardship at Portsmouth. In August she underwent a small repair and was refitted for sea service still under Captain Green. Admiral Freemantle died in the December of 1819. The Rochefort was placed under the command of Captain Charles Marsh Schomberg in the April of 1820 as Flagship to Vice Admiral Sir graham Moore, and sailed once more to the Med on the 11th of August,1820.

    Fate.

    This was destined to be her last voyage as she was paid off in the April of 1824 and Rochfort was broken up at Chatham. The work being completed on the 20th of June, 1826.
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    HMS Redoubtable (1815)



    HMS Redoubtable

    HMS Redoubtable was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class,74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Edward Sison at Woolwich Dockyard. Ordered on the 29th of December, 1806 and laid down in the April of 1809, she was launched on the 26th of 26 January, 1815. She had been completed by the September of 1814 but was left on the slip to season. She sailed to Sheerness on the 4th of April 1815.


    Redoubtable


    History
    GREAT BRITAIN
    Name: HMS Redoubtable
    Ordered: 29 December 1806
    Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
    Laid down: April 1809
    Launched: 26 January 1815
    Fate: Broken up, 1841
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
    Tons burthen: 1759 (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 Redoubtable was never commissioned.
    She underwent a small repair at Chatham between the July of 1819 and the September of 1820 at a cost of £15,420. She was thereafter, housed at Sheerness in ordinary.

    Fate.

    Redoubtable was broken up in the May of 1841 at Chatham.
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    HMS Defence (1815)

    HMS Defence was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class 74 gun, third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Robert Seppings at Chatham Dockyard until the March of 1813, and then completed by George Parkin. Ordered on the 23rd of March, 1809 as Marathon, and laid down in the May of 1812, she was renamed on the 31st of January, 1815, and launched on the 25th of April of that year.


    Defence
    History
    GREAT BRITAIN
    Name: HMS Defence
    Ordered: 23 March 1809
    Builder: Chatham Dockyard
    Laid down: May 1812
    Launched: 25 April 1815
    Fate: Burnt, 1857
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
    Tons burthen: 1754 (bm)
    Length: 174 ft (53.48 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.

    HMS Defence was never commissioned, and never completed for sea. She was delayed in her fitting out at the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars and was housed over from her main mast forrard in 1817. She then remained in ordinary at Sheerness from 1842 till 1846. Fitted at Sheerness in the summer of 1848 and finished at Portsmouth, she was converted to serve as a convict ship for Woolwich in 1849, where she was based for six years.

    Fate.

    Defence was badly damaged by an accidental fire, probably caused by spontaneous combustion in a load recently delivered coal, at Woolwich on the 14th of July 1857. The fire was extinguished by scuttling the ship and while she was not totally destroyed the remains had been broken up by the 21st of January 1858.
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    HMS Hercules (1815)

    HMS Hercules was a Peake and Rule designed Armada Class,74 gun third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Robert Seppings at Chatham Dockyard until the March of 1813, and then completed by George Parkin. She was ordered on the 6th of May, 1809 and then re-ordered again on the 6th of December, 1811 She was finally laid down in the August of 1812 and launched on the 5th of September, 1815. Completion was on the 17th of November in that year, and the ship went into ordinary.


    Hercules

    History
    GREAT BRITAIN
    Name: HMS Hercules
    Ordered: 16 May 1809
    Builder: Seppings Chatham Dockyard
    Laid down: August 1812
    Launched: 5 September 1815
    Commissioned: March 1836
    Fate: Sold out of the Service, 22 August 1865

    General characteristics
    Class and type: Armada Class 74 gun ship of the line
    Tons burthen: 1759 (bm)
    Length:
    • 176 ft 1 in (53.67 m) (gundeck)
    • 145 ft 1.75 in (44.2405 m) (keel)
    Beam: 47 ft 7.25 in (14.5098 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.

    After undergoing between small and middling repairs at Sheerness and Chatham for a cost of £14,720 between the November of 1830 and the January of 1836, HMS Hercules was commissioned in the March of 1836 for a particular service at Lisbon. On her return between the January and February 1838 she was fitted as a Troop ship at Plymouth. She was next placed in ordinary from 1842 to 1846. In 1847 she was fitted to convey timber from India, and was next recommissioned as a store ship in the December of 1847. Her next duty was as a receiving ship at Malta in the August of 1851.

    In the September and October of 1852 she was fitted as an emigrant ship at Chatham. On the 26th of December in that year Hercules departed on her way to Australia. The gold rushes had put a premium on passenger ships, so she took 756 Scots civilian passengers to South Australia and Victoria on behalf of the Highland and Island Emigration Society. Many of the Emigrants were embarking under duress from the trustees of the Boreraig, Suishnish and North Uist estates of Lord Macdonald. The voyage proved disastrous, beginning almost immediately with a horrific storm, during which the ship sought refuge at Rothseay. Soon after their second departure in early January 1853, outbreaks of smallpox and typhus were discovered, necessitating three months quarantine at Queenstown, County Cork. 56 people died, 17 orphaned children were returned home. and many others were assigned to a dozen other ships, families being broken up in the process. The ship finally arrived in Adelaide in the July of that year.

    Fate.

    On her return later in 1853, Hercules was refitted as an Army Depot ship at Plymouth and In 1854 she proceeded to Hong Kong to serve as a depot and receiving ship. She was sold there to a Chinese resident; one Hop-tai-loon for £3,825 on the 22nd of August, 1865 to be broken up.
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    HMS Wellesley (1815)


    Wellesley sailing along a rocky coastline

    HMS Wellesley was a Black Prince Class 74 gun third rate ship of the line which should have been built on Seppings’ principle of cross bracing, however, the plans were lost with the capture of HMS Java in 1812 and she followed more closely the lines of Cornwallis. She was built by the East India Company at Bombay Dockyard. Ordered on the 6th of January, 1812, and laid down in the May of 1813, she was named after the Duke of Wellington, and launched on the 24th of February, 1815. Completion took place in the February of 1825 at Portsmouth.
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    Name: HMS Wellesley
    Ordered: 3 September 1812
    Builder: Bombay Dockyard
    Laid down: May 1813
    Launched: 24 February 1815
    Renamed: TS Cornwall, 1868
    Honours and
    awards:
    China 1840–42
    Fate: Sunk by bombing, 1940, raised and broken up 1948

    General characteristics
    Class and type: Black Prince Class, altered to Armada Class in building
    Tons burthen: 1745 ​7594 (bm)
    Length: 175 ft 10 34 in (53.6 m)
    Beam: 47 ft 7 in (14.5 m)
    Depth of hold: 21 ft 0in (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
    • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder Carronades


    Service.

    HMS Wellesley was commissioned under Captain John Harper for the voyage to England in the June of 1815. She arrived at Portsmouth on the 3rd of May 1816 and was laid up until 1823.
    In 1823 Wellesley carried Sir Charles Stuart de Rothesay on a mission to Portugal and Brazil to negotiate a commercial treaty with Pedro the first of Brazil. On the 23rd of November,1824, Wellesley was driven ashore at Portsmouth during a gale. Between 25 November 1824 and 30 January 1825, her tender, Wolf, took several prizes, for which prize money was payable.
    Wellesley was the flagship of Rear admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland in the Med between 1827 and 1830. She went into Plymouth for a small repair costing £ 25.119 between the February of 1835 and 1837. On the 19th of June in that year Captain Thomas Maitland assumed the command of Wellesley, which became the flagship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Lewis Maitland.

    On 2nd and 3rd of February, 1839 Wellesley, HMS Algerine and troops captured Karachi. Wellesley sailed into the harbour and proceeded to fire at the mud fort on Manora Island, subduing the fortifications in rapid order. The purpose of the unprovoked attack was to convince the local rulers to sign a new treaty with the Honourable East India Company.

    In the March of that year relations between Persia and Britain broke down and came to a confrontation over a series of British demands, including that the Shah of Persia grant the British permission to establish a permanent base on Kharg Island, which they had already unilaterally occupied. This resulted in a series of attacks on the British Residency in Bushire and led to the dispatch of Wellesley and Algerine to the area. The outcome of the situation was the Anglo-Persian Treaty, signed on the 28th of October, 1841, which recognised a mutual freedom to trade in the territory of the other and for the British to establish consulates in Tehran and Tabriz.
    Admiral Maitland died on 30 November whilst at sea on board Wellesley, off Bombay and was superseded by Commodore Sir James Bremer.

    The First Opium War.

    Wellesley saw active service in the Far East during the First Opium War. Led by Commodore Sir James Bremer in Wellesley, a British expedition took Chusan in the July of 1840 after an exchange of gunfire with shore batteries which caused only minor casualties to the British. When Wellesley returned from the conflict, 27 cannonballs were found embedded in the sides of the ship.



    Wellesley, second from the left, in the second capture of Chusan on the 1st of October, 1841.

    On 7th of January, 1841 she participated in the Second battle of Chuenpi and the bombardment of fortifications at Tycocktow. Both Chuenpi and Tycocktow guarded the seaward approaches to Canton on the Bocca Tigris (Bogue). This campaign resulted in the British taking possession of Hong Kong Island on the 26th of February in that year.
    On that same day, Wellesley participated in the Battle of the Bogue, which involved bombardments, landings, capture and destruction of nearly all the Chinese forts and fortifications on both sides of the Bocca Tigris as far up river as Canton. Next day, seamen and Royal Marines of the naval squadron attacked and captured the fort, camp and guns at a Chinese position during the Battle of First Bar. The squadron also destroyed the Chinese Admiral's vessel Cambridge, formerly a 34-gun East Indiaman.

    Between the 23rd and the 30th of May in that same year, she participated in joint operations that led to the capture of Canton itself, and subsequent payment by the Chinese of a six million dollar reparations payment imposed on them. Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker replaced Commodore Sir James Bremer as commander-in-chief of the squadron in China on the 10th of August.

    On the 26th of August, Wellesley participated in the destruction of batteries and defences surrounding Amoy. At one point Captain Maitland placed the Wellesley within 400 yards of the principal battery. This action included the temporary occupation of that town and island, along with its key defensive positions on the Island of Koo-Lang-Soo, which were garrisoned. Finally, on the 1st of October, the British, who had withdrawn in February, reoccupied Chusan and the city of Tinghae. The British proceeded to Amoy, Ningpo, Woosung and Shanghai, ending with the seizure of Chinkiang and closing the entrance to the Grand Canal on the 21st of July, 1842.

    Meantime Wellesley had made the voyage home to England and was laid up at Plymouth In that same July as the British were victorious at Chinkiang.

    For his services during the war, Captain Maitland was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and. was knighted in 1843. Some 609 officers, men and marines of Wellesley qualified for the China Medal. In all, 18 crew and 17 marines died, though not all did so in combat.

    In the December of 1847 Wellesley was fitted at Plymouth for a cost of £11,157 as Flagship there between that month and the March of 1848. She was laid up at Chatham in the June of 1851.

    In 1854 Wellesley was fitted as a guard ship for ordinary at Chatham and in that hat same year she became a harbour flagship and receiving ship there. By 1862 her role had changed to that of a training ship still serving at Chatham.On the 6th of April, 1868 the Admiralty lent her to the London School Ship Society, which refitted her as a Reformatory, renamed Cornwall, and she was moored off Purfleetl. Later, Cornwall reverting to her original name was moved to the Tyne and served as The Tyne Industrial Training Ship of the Wellesley Nautical School. In 1928, due to industrial development at that location, she was moved to Denton, below Gravesend.

    Fate.

    On the 24th of September, 1940 a German air-raid severely damaged Wellesley and she subsequently sank in the Thames. She was raised in 1948 and beached at Tilbury, where she was broken up. Some of her timbers found a home in the rebuilding of the Royal Courts of Justicei n London, while her figurehead now resides just inside the main gates of Chatham Dockyard.



    Figurehead of HMS Wellesley

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    This concludes my list of third rate ships of the line, 1793 to 1815. I will now deal with the 3rd Rate ships of 60 -64 guns launched during the period 1754 to 1815.

    As usual my work is indebted to the following reference sources:-

    Wikipedia.
    More than Nelson.
    Osprey's British Napoleonic ships of the Line.
    Rif Winfield's British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817
    The ships of Trafalgar by Peter Goodwin.
    The battle of Copenhagen by Ole Feldbaekand,
    Thec Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
    Any mistakes are solely down to me.

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