HMS Trafalgar (1820)

Career (UK)

Name:	HMS Trafalgar
Ordered:	12 June 1807
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	May 1813
Launched:	26 July 1820
Fate:	Sold, 1906
General characteristics
Class and type:	98-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2404 tons (2442.6 tonnes)
Length:	196 ft (60 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	52 ft 6 in (16.0 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 8 in (6.9 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	98 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Middle gundeck: 30 × 18 pdrs Upper gundeck: 30 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 12 pdrs, 8 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

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

HMS Trafalgar was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line, launched on 26 July 1820 at Chatham. She was jointly designed by the Surveyors of the Navy at the time, and was the only ship built to her draught.

Trafalgar was placed on harbour service in 1854, and was sold out of the Navy in 1906.