HMS Illustrious (1803)

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Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Illustrious
Ordered: 4 February 1800
Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe
Launched: 3 September 1803
Fate: Broken up, 1868
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Fame-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1746 tons (1774 tonnes)
Length: 175 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

74 guns:

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Illustrious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 September 1803 at Rotherhithe.[1]

Illustrious served as a gunnery ship from 1854, and was broken up in 1868.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p185.

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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