Third Rate 64 gun ships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Crown (1782)

HMS Crown was a ,1779, Edward Hunt designed Crown Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line. It was the final British design for a 64 and added a few changes to the earlier designs. Its overall length was extended by 6in, and it incorporated an extra pair of gun ports on the upper deck forrard in the chase position, but had no additional guns supplied.

Built by Perry and Hankey of Blackwall, she was ordered on the 14th of October, 1778, laid down in the September of 1779 and launched on the 15th of March 1782. She was completed at Woolwich on the 18th of May in that same year.


Plan of the Orlop deck of Crown

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Crown
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall yard
Laid down:	September 1779
Launched:	15 March 1782
Fate:	Broken up, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Crown Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1405 ​8⁄94 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 5 in (48.90 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 10 in (13.67 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 5.5 in (5.880 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	64 guns: GD: 26 × 24 pdrs UG deck: 26 × 18 pdrs QD: 10 × 9 pdrs+ 2x 24 pdr Carronades from1794 Fc: 2 × 9 pdrs RH: 6x 18 pdr Carronades from 1794.

Service.

HMS Crown was commissioned in the March of 1782, and joined the squadron cruising in the Bay of Biscay in the July of that year. On the 11th of September she joined Howe cruising off Lisbon.
On her return to England in the April of 1784 she was paid off but recommissioned in that same month for use as a guardship at Plymouth.

Paid off again in 1786 she was coppered for a cost of £3496 and that September she was recommissioned still as a guardship. Paid off once more in the October of 1788 she was recommissioned for service at sea at Chatham between the October and November of 1788 and sailed for the East Indies.

She returned to England in 1792 and was paid off once again.

In the May of 1798 she was converted to serve as a prison ship under Lieutenant John Baker until 1801.In the September of that year Lieutenant Benjamin Leigh took over her command, and the following year she was fitted as a powder hulk at Portsmouth. She was refitted as a prison ship again in the June of 1806 and commissioned under Lieutenant John Smith who died in the December of that year. She thus passed to the command of Lieutenant James Rose from 1807 to 1811, and then Lieutenant William Wickham until 1814.

Fate.

HMS Crown was placed into ordinary in 1815, and was broken up in the March 1816 at Portsmouth.