HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Queen Charlotte.

Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Queen Charlotte
NamesakeCharlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Ordered9 July 1801
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downOctober 1805
Launched17 July 1810[1]
CommissionedJanuary 1813
FateSold, 12 January 1892
General characteristics [2]
Class and type104-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen2289 bm
Length190 ft 0+1⁄2 in (57.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam52 ft 5+3⁄4 in (16.0 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 4 in (6.8 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • Gundeck: 30 × 32-pounder guns
  • Middle gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 30 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford. She replaced the first Queen Charlotte sunk in 1800.

Career

A Black sailor from Grenada named William Brown was discharged from Queen Charlotte in 1815 for being a woman.

She was Lord Exmouth's flagship during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816.

On 17 September 1817, Linnet, a tender to Queen Charlotte, seized a smuggled cargo of tobacco. The officers and crew of Queen Charlotte shared in the prize money.[Note 1]

On 17 December 1823, Queen Charlotte was driven into the British ship Brothers at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.[4] Brothers suffered severe damage in the collision.[4]

  • Representations of Queen Charlotte
  • Council of war on board Queen Charlotte, 1818, by Nicolaas Baur
    Council of war on board Queen Charlotte, 1818, by Nicolaas Baur
  • Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
    Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers

Fate

The Excellent, in Portsmouth Harbour c. 1862, firing her great gun in a practice drill. George Washington Wilson

Queen Charlotte was converted to serve as a training ship in 1859 and renamed HMS Excellent. She was eventually sold out of the service to be broken up in 1892.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ A first-class share was worth £101 18s 8d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 8s 2¼d.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ The Times (London), Wednesday, 18 July 1810, p.3
  2. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p. 187.
  3. ^ "No. 17360". The London Gazette. 16 May 1818. p. 892.
  4. ^ a b "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5865): 78 v. 19 December 1823.

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.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008): British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793 - 1817. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.


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