HMS Boscawen (1844)

Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Boscawen
Ordered:	11 May 1817
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	January 1826
Launched:	3 April 1844
Fate:	Broken up, 1914
General characteristics
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2048 tons (2080.9 tonnes)
Length:	187 ft 4½ in (57.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	50 ft 9 in (15.47 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Boscawen.

HMS Boscawan was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 April 1844 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was originally ordered and begun as a 74-gun ship, but an Admiralty order dated 3 March 1834 required that she be reworked to Sir William Symonds' design. She was named for Admiral Edward Boscawen.

In 1874, Boscawen was converted into a training ship and renamed Wellesley.^{[citation needed]} She was broken up in 1914.

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.