HMS Impregnable (1810)

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Name: HMS Impregnable
Ordered: 13 January 1798
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: February 1802
Launched: 1 August 1810
Renamed: HMS Kent, HMS Caledonia
Fate: Sold, 1901
General characteristics
Class and type: 98-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2406 tons (2444.6 tonnes)
Length: 197 ft (60 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 51 ft (16 m)
Depth of hold: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Armament:

98 guns:

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Middle gundeck: 30 × 18 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 30 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 12 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs

HMS Impregnable was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Chatham. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to her draught.

Impregnable became a training ship in 1862,[1]

In 1880 she was re-named HMS Kent, eleven years later she was re-named HMS Caledonia. She was sold for breaking up in 1901.

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  1. ^ Ships of the Old Navy.

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