HMS Cumberland (1807)

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Cumberland
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Cumberland
Ordered31 January 1805
BuilderPitcher, Northfleet
Laid downAugust 1805
Launched19 August 1807
Renamed1833
FateConverted to prison ship, 1830
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Fortitude
FateSold, 1870
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Repulse-class ship of the line
Tons burthen17181694 (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
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 4 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 August 1807 at Northfleet. [1] During the Napoleonic wars she brought King William I of the Netherlands from London to The Netherlands.

In 1809, she took part in the Battle of Maguelone under Captain Philip Wodehouse. [2]

On 12 March 1812, as the merchant ship Ramoncita was returning from Lima and Cadiz, the French privateer Amelia captured her. However, HMS Virago recaptured Ramoncita. The salvage money notice stated that Virago had been in company with HMS Venerable, Cumberland, Elizabeth, and Plantagenet. [3]

Cumberland was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1830. She was renamed Fortitude in 1833. [4]

She was eventually sold out of the service in 1870. [1]

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The Cumberland at sea

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 188.
  2. Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France (in French). Vol. 4. Challamel ainé. pp. 56–58.
  3. "No. 16744". The London Gazette . 22 June 1813. p. 1228.
  4. "Fortitude (originally Cumberland)" . Retrieved 2 January 2010.

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