HMS Belleisle (1819)

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The hospital ship Belleisle taking provisions during the Crimean War
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Belleisle
Ordered17 November 1812
BuilderPembroke Dockyard
Laid downFebruary 1816
Launched26 April 1819
FateBroken up, 1872
General characteristics [1]
Class and type
Tons burthen1709 bm
Length174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold20 ft (6.1 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9-pounders
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9-pounders
Plans of Belleisle 'Sceptre' (1802); 'Repulse' (1803); 'Eagle' (1804); 'Belleisle' (1819); 'Malabar' (1818); 'Talavera' (1818) RMG J3340.png
Plans of Belleisle

HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard. [1]

Contents

Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841 and sailed for China in Dec. 1841 for the First Opium War. She stayed in China until the Treaty of Nanking was signed in 1842. [2] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June. [3]

Belleisle was subsequently used as a hospital ship at Chatham. In June 1866, she was lent by the Admiralty to the Seamen's Hospital Society for use as a hospitaly ship in London for seamen suffering from cholera. Whilst being towed up the River Thames by the tug Medusa, she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide. [4] Belleisle was broken up in 1872. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
  2. ↑ Carradice, Phil (15 August 2013). "The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard". Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 38 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Devon". The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser. No. 2771. Truro. 1 August 1856. p. 5.
  4. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 25518. London. 7 June 1866. col E-F, p. 12.

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