HMS Revenge (1805)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Revenge.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Revenge
Ordered: 29 September 1796
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: August 1800
Launched: 13 April 1805
Honours and
awards:

Participated in:

Battle of Trafalgar
Fate: Broken up, 1849
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:1954 (Builder's Old measurement)
Length:181 ft 11 in (55.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam:49 ft 2 in (15.0 m)
Depth of hold:20 ft 9 in (6.3 m)
Propulsion:Sails
Sail plan:Full rigged ship
Armament:Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns

Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns
QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns

Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Revenge was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1805. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught. As a large 74, she carried 24 pdrs on her upper gun deck, rather than the 18 pdrs found on the middling and common class 74s.[1]

Newly commissioned, and captained by Robert Moorsom, she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, where she sailed in Collingwood's column.

In October 1810, Revenge captured the French privateer cutter Vauteur off Cherbourg after a five-hour chase. Vauteur had been armed with 16 guns, but she threw 14 of them overboard during the chase. She had been out of Dieppe for 45 hours but had made no captures. She was the former British cutter John Bull, of Plymouth, and was restored to Plymouth on 19 October.[2] Diana participated in an attack on a French frigate squadron anchored at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue at the Action of 15 November 1810, which ultimately led to the destruction of the Elisa.

Revenge served until 1842, being broken up in 1849.[1] She was one of the first warships of the Royal Navy to be painted with the Nelson Checker.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p184.
  2. ↑ Lloyd's List, 23 October 1810. - accessed 10 November 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.

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