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.
Service.
GREAT BRITAIN Name: HMS Mulgrave Ordered: 23 June 1807 Builder: King, Upnor Laid down: February 1808 Launched: 1 January 1812 Fate: Broken up, 1854 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
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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