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Class overview |
Name | Princess Charlotte |
Operators | Royal Navy |
In service | 14 September 1825 - 1905 |
Completed | 2 |
General characteristics |
Type | Ship of the line |
Length |
- 197 ft 7 in (60.22 m) (gundeck)
- 163 ft 4 in (49.78 m) (keel)
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Beam | 52 ft 10 in (16.10 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
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
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Notes | Ships in class include: Princess Charlotte, Royal Adelaide |
The Princess Charlotte-class ships of the line were a class of two 104-gun first rates of the Royal Navy. They were built to an enlarged version of the lines of Sir Thomas Slade's Victory.
Ships
- Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 19 June 1813
- Launched: 14 September 1825
- Fate: Sold, 1875
- Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 6 January 1812
- Launched: 28 July 1828
- Fate: Sold, 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.