HMS Black Prince (1816)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Black Prince.

Black Prince, a plan dated 1815
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Black Prince
Ordered	14 August 1810
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down	July 1814
Launched	30 March 1816
Fate	Broken up, 1855
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	Black Prince-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1751 bm
Length	176 ft 1 in (53.67 m) (gundeck) 144 ft 10.375 in (44.15473 m) (keel)
Beam	47 ft 8 in (14.53 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

A Black Prince plan dated 1810, based on the design of the captured (1807) Danish 74-gun Christian VII.

HMS Black Prince was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard. ^[1]

In 1848, Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855. ^{[1] [2]}

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
2. Phillips, Michael. Black Prince (74) (1816). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 4 May 2009.

References

• Lavery, Brian (1983) 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: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN   978-1-84415-717-4.

External links

• Media related to HMS Black Prince (ship, 1816) at Wikimedia Commons