HMS Caledonia (1808)

Career (UK)
Fight of the Romulus against HMS Boyne and HMS Caledonia, by Gilbert Pierre-Julien (1783 - 1860)
Name:	HMS Caledonia
Ordered:	19 January 1797
Builder:	Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down:	January 1805
Launched:	25 June 1808
Renamed:	HMS Dreadnought, 1856
Honours and awards:	Participated in bombardment of Algiers, 1816
Fate:	Broken up, 1875
General characteristics
Class and type:	Caledonia-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2616 tons (2658 tonnes)
Length:	205 ft (62 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	53 ft 6 in (16.3 m)
Depth of hold:	23 ft 2 in (7.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	120 guns: Gundeck: 32 × 32 pdrs Middle gundeck: 34 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 34 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 2 × 18 pdr carronades

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Caledonia.

HMS Caledonia was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 June 1808 at Plymouth. She was Admiral Pellew's flagship in the Mediterranean.

In 1856 she was converted to a hospital ship, renamed Dreadnought and became the second floating Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, where she remained until 1870. In 1871 she was briefly returned to service to accommodate patients recovering from the smallpox epidemic of that year. She was broken up in 1875.