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

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HMS Venerable (1808)


HMS Venerable fighting the French frigate Alcmène on 16 January 1814


HMS Venerable was a Revived Repulse Class 74-gun third rate ship of the line,ordered on the 21st of January 1805. She was laid down in the December of that year and built by Thomas Pitcher at Northfleet. The ship was launched on the 12th of April, 1808 and completed at the builders own yard.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Venerable
Ordered:	31 January 1805
Builder:	Pitcher, Northfleet
Laid down:	December 1805
Launched:	12 April 1808
Honours and awards:	·Naval General Service Medal with clasp o "Venerable 16 Jany. 1814"
Fate:	Broken up, 1838
General characteristics
Class and type:	Revived Repulse Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1716 (bm)
Length:	174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 8 × 9-pounder guns, 6 × 18-pounder carronades ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Service.


HMS Venerable was commissioned in the May of 1808 by Captain Sir Home Popham, who commanded her until 1812, as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan. In the June of that year she was temporarily placed under Captain Andrew King.


In 1809 she took part in the Walcheren operations, and then in 1810 became Flagship to Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Williams in the North Sea, followed by operations on the North coast of Spain, and was at Lequeito on the 20th of June in that year.
On the 13th of December, Venerable was in company with the armed cutter Nimrod and several other vessels when they captured the Goede Trouw.


In the February of 1812 Venerable was put under the command of Captain James Dundas until the September of that year when Captain David Milne took over from Dundas.


Between the June and July of 1813 she was at Portsmouth having defects made good and on completion of the work came under the command of Captain James A Worth as Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Durham, bound for the Leeward Islands. On the 31st of December in that year, she captured the French privateer brig Jason which became HMS Jason. Jason, of 264 tons (bm), was pierced for 22 guns but carried 14, 12 of which she had thrown overboard when Venerable chased her. She had left Bordeaux five days earlier and was sailing for New York with a cargo of silks, wines, and other articles of merchandise. There were 64 people on board, ten of whom were passengers. She was on her maiden voyage, copper bottomed, and sailed so well, Captain Worth took her under protection, intending to go to Barbados.


Venerable was still Admiral Durham’s Flagship when on the 16th of January 1814, she and her prize Jason, were in company with Cyane. Cyane spotted two 40 gun French frigates, Alcmène and Iphigénie and signalled to Venerable. Venerable joined her, and after a chase that left Cyane in her wake, Venerable succeeded in capturing Alcmène, though not without a fight. Venerable lost 2 men dead and 4 wounded, while the French lost 32 dead and 50 wounded. Alcmène carried a complement of 319 men under the command of a Captain Ducrest de Villeneuve, who was wounded when he brought her alongside Venerable when he attempted to board her.


Jason and Cyane tracked Iphigénie and initially fired on her but broke off the engagement because they were outgunned. Cyane continued the chase for over three days until Venerable was able to rejoin the fight after having sailed 153 miles in the direction she believed that Iphigénie had taken. On 20 January 1814, after a 19-hour chase, or what amounted in all to a four-day chase Iphigénie, Venerable captured the quarry, having again left Cyane behind. In the chase, Iphigénie cast off her anchors and threw her boats overboard in order to try to gain speed. She had a complement of 325 men, under the command of Captain Émeric. She apparently made no resistance after Venerable came up with her. Before meeting up with the British ships, the two French vessels had taken some eight prizes. Venerable was able to locate Iphigénie because Commander Ducrest de Villeneuve of Alcmène was so angry at Captain Émeric, who was the senior French commander, for not having come alongside Venerable on the other side also to board, that he essentially revealed the rendezvous instructions to Durham. When some prisoners from Iphigénie's crew were brought on Venerable, crew from Alcmène too were enraged. Durham had to station Royal Marines between them, with fixed bayonets, to prevent fighting from breaking out.


The action resulted in 1847, in the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Venerable 16 Jany.1814", to any of the surviving participants in the action.


In the July of 1814, Venerable came under the command of Captain William M’Culloch, and then a series of other captains. Starting with George Pringle, next came Lieutenant Robert Wemyss (acting), and finally Captain George Thompson, again acting, until she was paid off at Plymouth in 1815.

Fate.


Venerable was placed on harbour service and fitted as a church ship at Portsmouth betweenthe May and October of 1825, and was broken up there in the October of 1838.

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HMS Blake (1808)



H.M.S. Blake, 74-guns, leaving Port Royal, Jamaica



HMS Blake was a 74 gun third rate ship of the line, developed from the French Courageux but lengthened by 7 foot 9 inches on the gundeck. She was ordered on the 23rd of July,1805, and the keel was laid in the May of 1806. And built at Deptford by Henry Peake until the June of 1806 only. Thereafter, by Robert Nelson, and launched on 23rd of August,1808, and named in honour of Admiral Robert Blake. The first ship in the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the famous Cromwellian 'General-at-Sea' Robert Blake (1599-1657) was also the name ship of two 'Blake' class '74s' Timber from Holstein was used to construct both ships.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:		HMS Blake
Ordered:		23 July1805
Builder:		Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:		May 1806
Launched:		23 August 1808
Fate:		Sold, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Blake Class, Modified from Courageux Classship of the line
Tons burthen:	1822 (bm)
Length:	180 ft 1.5 in (54.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	48 ft 2 in (14.6 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 10 in (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 Blake was commissioned in the September of 1808 by Captain Edward Codrington, who commanded her until 1812.
She served in the Walcheren operations during 1809 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Alan Hyde, Lord Gardiner.

On the 27th of May, 1810 she sailed for the Med.

On the 26th of September, 1812, Blake and Franchise provided naval support to a land attack, at night, on Tarragona, by troops under the command of General Joaquín Ibáñez Cuevas, Baron d'Eroles. The attack was successful, and resulted, inter alia, in the capture of several small vessels. The Spanish troops suffered three men killed and eight wounded; the British had no casualties whatsoever. Captain Edward Codrington, of Blake, wrote to Baron d'Eroles and to Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, that the officers and crew declined any prize money from the action, in favour of the Spanish troops, "in admiration of the valour and the discipline which they showed upon the occasion."

Fate.

Between the April and May of 1813 Blake was fitted for ordinary at Portsmouth. From the December of that year she served temporarily as a prison ship until the January of 1814, when she was recommissioned under Lieutenant George Forbes. On the 17th of October,1816 she was sold out of the navy for £3,500 to be broken up.

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HMS Saint Domingo (1809)


Sir Richard Strachan on HMS Saint Domingo, conducting the bombardment of Flushing during the Walcheren Campaign of 1809.

HMS Saint Domingo was a Blake Class 74 gunthird rateship of the line, as a sister ship to Blake. She was ordered on the 23rd of July 1785 and laid down in the June of 1806.Built by M/shipwright Edward Sison at Woolwich Dockyard; she was launched on the 3rd of March, 1809.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Saint Domingo
Ordered:	23rd July 1805
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	June 1806
Launched:	3 March 1809
Fate:	Sold, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Modified Courageux-classship of the line
Tons burthen:	1820 (bm)
Length:	180 ft (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	48 ft 1.5 in (14.649 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 10.5 in (6.35 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: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Service.

HMS Saint Domingo was commissioned in the March of 1809 under Captain Charles Gill who commanded her until 1812. She was destined to start her service as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan. She took part in the Scheldt operations between the 28th of July and the 4th of September in that year, and then later off the Texel.

From 1812 she was under the command of Captain John Thompson as the Flagship to Sir John Borlase Warren, and sailed for America on the 14th of August in that year. During Admiral Warren’s voyage to Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saint Domingo together with Poictiers, Sophie, Magnet, and Mackerel, Magnet disappeared and was presumed lost with all hands.

In 1813 Saint Domingo came under the captaincy of Samuel Petchell until the following year.
On the 17th of January she captured the American privateer schooner Teazer.
On 13 April 1813, Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, consisting of his flagship, Saint Domingo, along with Marlborough, Maidstone, Statira, Fantome, Mohawk, and Highflyer pursued four schooners into the Rappahannock. The British sent boats 15 miles upriver before finally capturing their prey.

The Arab, of seven guns and 45 men, was run aground and boarded by two boats from Marlborough. Lynx, of six guns and 40 men, hauled down her colours when Borlase went alongside her in Saint Domingo's pinnace. Racer, of six guns and 38 men, was boarded and carried, after a sharp, resistance, by the Saint Domingo's pinnace. Dolphin, of 12 guns and 98 men surrendered after Racer's guns were turned on her. Finally the Dolphin resisted for two hours, but was then boarded by men from Statira's large cutter and Maidstone's launch. In the entire action the British lost two men killed and 11 wounded, whilst the Americans lost six killed and 10 wounded.
The British took three of the schooners into service. The Chesapeake schooner Lynx became Mosquidobit. Of the three Baltimore schooners, the Racer became Shelburne; Dolphin retained her name; lastly, it is not clear what became of Arab.

On the 22nd of June in that same year there was another boat attack on Norfolk Virginia.
Saint Domingo was driven ashore at Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, during a gale on 12 November 1813. She was rapidly refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
In 1814 she saw further service as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Edward Foote, and on the 1st of March took the 13 gun American Privateer Argus.
In 1815 on her return to England she went into ordinary at Sheerness.

Fate.

Saint Domingo was sold out of the Navy for £4,800 on the 18th of May,1816 to be broken up.

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HMS Milford (1809)


Milford



HMS Milford was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 16th of December 1796 and built to a Jean-Louis Barralier design, adapted from his lines for the Spencer in 1795. Laid down in the June of 1798, it was built by Jacobs of Milford Haven. He went bankrupt during the construction and the project had to be completed by the Government. This was to become the beginnings of the embryonic establishment of Milford Haven Dockyard. Milford was finally launched on the1st of April, 1809. As a large class 74, she was the only ship built to her draught. This also enabled her to carry 24 pdrs on her upper gun deck, instead of the usual 18 pdrs found on the middling and common class 74s.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Milford
Ordered:	16 December 1796
Builder:	Jacobs, Milford Haven
Laid down:	June 1798
Launched:	1 April 1809
Fate:	Broken up, 1846
General characteristics
Class and type:		74-gun Milford Class third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1918 (bm)
Length:		181 ft,1 in (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		49 ft,1.5 in (15 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns ·QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns · ·*All 9-pounders later replaced by 32 pdr Carronades.

Service.


HMS Milford was commissioned under Captain Henry Bayntun for Channel service in 1810 as the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Durham bound for the Baltic. Later in that year she came under the command of Captain Edward Kittoe as the Flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Richard Keats, and sailed for the Med on the18th of August.


In 1812 she was placed under the command of Captain John Duff Markland as Flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Freemantle in the Med.On the 3rd of July 1813 Milford was involved in the attack on Fiume. Her boats, along with those from Weasel, were used at Rogozinica on the 4th of August, and between the 5th and the 29th of October, Milford was involved in the capture of Trieste.

Fate.


Milford was paid off in 1814 and went into ordinary. Between the May and June of 1825 she was fitted as a lazarette at Plymouth, and was then transported to Milford. From the July of that year until 1842 she served there in that capacity. Finally removed to Pembroke she was broken up there in 1846.

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HMS Royal Oak (1809)



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

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

Service.


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


War of 1812.


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


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

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


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

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

Fate.

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

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HMS Ajax (1809)




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

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

Service.

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

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

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

Post-war.

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

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



Ajax as guardship at Kingstown

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

Fate.

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

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HMS Berwick (1809)





Berwick



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

Service.


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


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


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


Fate.


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