Talk:HMS Glatton (1795)

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[edit] 64-pounder carronades?

This article originally claimed that Glatton's armament consisted of:

thirty two 64 pounder and thirty two 42 pounder carronades

This seems doubtful to me: 64-pounders were very big. J. J. Colledge gives her armament as 28 × 32lb plus 28 × 18lb, which seems much more plausible. Steel's Naval Chronologist for 1801 gives Glatton as mounting 54 guns at the Battle of Copenhagen. So I went with the smaller numbers. Gdr 19:23, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to "64-pounder carronades?"

I originally specified the armament as 32x64s and 32x32s since that is what I'd read. I've just done a bit more looking into it, and according to William James' "Naval History of Great Britain" (1837) it states that Captain Trollope upgraded the Glattons lower deck armament to 64 pdr carronades since they were his favourite weapon. Later on it mentions the 32 pdrs on the upper deck too. I'll take James's testimony in preference to that of Colledge, since it was written just a few years after the Glattons encounter with the French frigate squadron, where he specifically mentions that "notwithstanding the long and incessant fire kept up by them, none of the 68, and two only of the 32 pounders, were dismounted."

However, after further reading I'm confident you are right about it being a 56 rather than a 64, making it a 4th rate :) WJT