HMS Hogue (1811)

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HMS Hogue, some time after her conversion to a screw ship
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Hogue
Ordered: 1 October 1806
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: April 1808
Launched: 3 October 1811
Fate: Broken up, 1865
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1750 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 Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford.[1]

She was converted into a screw-propelled steamship in 1850. Hogue was eventually broken up in 1865.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p188.

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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