HMS Belleisle (1819)

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      Name: HMS Belleisle
      Ordered: 17 November 1812
      Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
      Laid down: February 1816
      Launched: 26 April 1819
      Fate: Broken up, 1872
      General characteristics [1]
      Class & type: Repulse-class ship of the line
      Tons burthen: 1709 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 pdrs
      • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
      • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
      • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

      HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]

      Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841, and was broken up in 1872.[1]

      Notes

      1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
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      References

      • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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