HMS Belleisle (1819)
HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]
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Name: | HMS Belleisle |
Ordered: | 17 November 1812 |
Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down: | February 1816 |
Launched: | 26 April 1819 |
Fate: | Broken up, 1872 |
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Tons burthen: | 1709 bm |
Length: | 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m) |
Depth of hold: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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Plans of Belleisle
Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841.[1] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June.[2]
Belleisle was subsequently used as a hospital ship at Chatham. In June 1866, she was lent by the Admiralty to the Seamen's Hospital Society for use as a hospitaly ship in London for seamen suffering from cholera. Whilst being towed up the River Thames by the tug Medusa, she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide.[3] Belleisle was broken up in 1872.[1]
Notes
- Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
- "Devon". The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser (2771). Truro. 1 August 1856. p. 5.
- "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times (25518). London. 7 June 1866. col E-F, p. 12.
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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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