HMS Abergavenny (1795)
| Career (UK) | .svg){kind=small} East India Company |
|---|---|
| Name: | Earl of Abergavenny |
| Ordered: | 5 December 1787 |
| Builder: | Joseph Graham, Harwich |
| Laid down: | 8 March 1788 |
| Launched: | 24 August 1789 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795 |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Abergavenny |
| Builder: | Thomas Pitched, Northfleet |
| Acquired: | 1795 |
| Fate: | Sold 1807 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fourth Rate |
| Tons burthen: | 1,160 long tons (1,180 t) |
| Length: | 160 feet (49 m) |
| Beam: | 41 feet (12 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 324 men |
| Armament: |
56 guns as Fourth Rate
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HMS Abergavenny was a 56-gun Fourth Rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman Earl of Abergavenny that the Admiralty bought in 1795.
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East India Company
Husband William Dent and Captain John Wordsworth completed two return voyages to China and back between January 1790 and September 1794.
The first voyage departed in January 1790, arriving Bombay, India on 7 June 1790. Leaving on 8 August they arrived on 3 October. The ship arrived back in England on 19 August 1791.
The second voyage left Spithead on 22 May 1793 via Manila to China. She left on March 17th 1794, arriving back in Northfleet, Kent at the end of September 1794.
With Captain E.T. Smith, in June 1795 she was sent to Cork to transport troops for the Santo Domingo part of Admiral Christian’s expedition.
She then operated from 1796 until 1807 as a Guard Ship and Flagship from Port Royal in Jamaica.
Disposal
The vessel was sold for break-up in 1807.
In fiction
- The novel A Sword for Mr Fitton by Showell Styles is set aboard Abergavenny in 1799. ISBN 9780571243389.
See also
- Robert Mends - captain
- Abergavenny - town in Monmouthshire
- Earl of Abergavenny - the title after which the ship was originally named
- Earl of Abergavenny (East Indiaman) - namesake launched in 1797 and wrecked in 1805 with the loss of 250 lives
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References
Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
