HMS Hindustan (1841)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Hindustan.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Hindustan
Ordered: 21 September 1819
Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down: August 1828
Launched: 2 August 1841
Fate: Sold, 1921
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 80-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2029 bm
Length: 185 ft 8 in (56.59 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 50 ft 9 in (15.47 m)
Depth of hold: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

80 guns:

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Hindustan was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 August 1841. Her design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of Repulse.[1]

She was used as a training ship from 1868, and was sold out of the navy in 1921.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.