HMS Powerful (1826)

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Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Powerful
Ordered:	23 January 1817
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	August 1820
Launched:	21 June 1826
Fate:	Broken up, 1864
General characteristics
Class and type:	Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2296 tons (2332.8 tonnes)
Length:	193 ft 10 in (59.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	52 ft 4.5 in (15.96 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 6 in (6.9 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	635 men, 60 boys, 150 marines
Armament:	84 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Powerful was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 June 1826 at Chatham Dockyard.

From 1 January 1838 to the end of 1840 she was commanded by Captain Charles Napier, mainly in the Mediterranean and for much of the time as lead ship of a detached squadron under Napier's orders. She took a prominent part in the Syrian War against the expansionist designs of Mehmet Ali, notably at the bombardment of Acre, 3 November 1840, where she sustained damage but no casualties. Powerful was then flagship of the squadron that blockaded Alexandria from 25 November. In 1841 Napier was succeeded as her captain by George Mansel, and then Sir Michael Seymour, who commanded her from 1841 until she paid off at Portsmouth in 1843. She was recommissioned in 1848 under the command of Sir Richard Saunders Dundas under whom she again served in the Mediterranean.

She was used as a target in 1860, and was broken up in 1864.

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