HMS Black Prince (1816)

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Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Black Prince
Ordered: 30 August 1810
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down: July 1814
Launched: 30 March 1816
Fate: Broken up, 1855
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Black Prince-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1751 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 Black Prince was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard.[1]

In 1848 Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855.[1][2]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol.1, p. 189.
  2. Phillips, Michael. Black Prince (74) (1816). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 4 May 2009.

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.