HMS Hindustan (1841)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Hindustan.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Hindostan
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
Notes:The name of the ship is HINDOSTAN and not HINDUSTAN which is the spelling of later vessels.

HMS Hindostan 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] After being broken up, her timbers and those of HMS Impregnable were used in 1924 in the renovation of the Liberty department store in London.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.
  2. ↑ "Our history". Liberty.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2013.


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.
  • Navy List (HMSO)