HMS Royal Adelaide (1828)

Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Royal Adelaide
Ordered:	6 January 1812
Builder:	Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down:	May 1819
Launched:	28 July 1828
Fate:	Sold, 1905
General characteristics
Class and type:	Princess Charlotte-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2446 bm
Length:	197 ft 7 in (60.22 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	52 ft 10 in (16.10 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	104 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Middle gundeck: 32 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 2 × 18 pdrs, 12 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 18 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Royal Adelaide.

HMS Royal Adelaide was a 104-gun First rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 July 1828 at Plymouth.

When first ordered in 1812 she was intended to be a Second rate of 98 guns, but in the general reclassifications of 1817 she was reclassed as a First rate.

By the time of the 1871 census she was the flagship at the Hamoaze, Devonport.^{[citation needed]}

She was converted to serve as a depot ship in 1860, and was eventually sold out of the navy in 1905.

Notes

she was flagship of Sir Henry Keppel
ended up as Hospitalship in 1879 and in 1889became an accommodation ship. Broken up in 1905

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.