HMS Pembroke (1812)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Pembroke.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Pembroke
Ordered: 17 May 1808
Builder: Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard
Laid down: March 1809
Launched: 27 June 1812
Fate: Sold, 1905
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:1758 bm
Length:176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:Sails
Sail plan:Full rigged ship
Armament:74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 June 1812 at Blackwall Yard.[1]

She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887.

She was renamed HMS Forte as a receiving hulk in 1890, and was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1905.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p189.

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.