HMS Clarence (1827)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Clarence.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Clarence
Ordered: 27 May 1819
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down: August 1824
Launched: 25 July 1827
Fate: Burnt, 17 January 1884 at Liverpool
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:2288 bm
Length:193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam:52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m)
Depth of hold:22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion:Sails
Sail plan:Full rigged ship
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 Clarence was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]

She was lent to the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association for use as a boys reformatory ship and was destroyed by a fire set by 6 of the boys whilst at her mooring in the Mersey in 1884.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 190.
  2. ↑ Gossett (1986), p.122.

References

  • Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
  • 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.