HMS Cumberland (1842)

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H.M.S. Cumberland, c.1852
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Cumberland
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid downApril 1836
Launched21 October 1842
FateBurned 17 February 1889
General characteristics [1]
Class and type70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen2214 bm
Length180 ft (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam54 ft 3 in (16.54 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 70 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Cumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 October 1842 at Chatham Dockyard. [1] She carried a crew of 620 men.

Cumberland recommissioned as a flagship under Captain George Henry Seymour as the flagship of his father, Vice-Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour. She served on the North America and West Indies Station. [2] In March 1854 she sailed to the Baltic Sea as the Crimean War with Russia was imminent. Cumberland was involved in the Battle of Bomarsund, an Anglo-French attack on Bomarsund in the Grand Duchy of Finland in August 1854. [3] On 15 March 1858, Cumberland ran aground on an uncharted rock in the River Plate off the Isla de Flores, Uruguay. Her captain and master were both acquitted at the subsequent court martial held on board HMS Impregnable at HMNB Devonport on 11 August. [4]

Cumberland was converted by The Clyde Industrial Training Ship Association to serve as a training ship for destitute and homeless boys from Glasgow in 1869. She was destroyed in an arson attack by young sailors at Rhu on the Gareloch in Scotland on 17 February 1889. [1] [5] [6]

The Association replaced her with HMS Revenge (1859) in 1891, on condition her name was changed to HMS Empress. The Revenge was a 91-gun screw powered second rate launched in 1859 and had been used as a base ship from 1872 The Association renamed as The Clyde Industrial Training Ship Empress Association converted her into a training ship, she was used as such until eventually sold for breaking in 1923. [7]

Monument to the 6 crew of HMS Cumberland that died at Halifax, Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) HMS Cumberland, Royal Naval Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia.jpg
Monument to the 6 crew of HMS Cumberland that died at Halifax, Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 192.
  2. "H.M.S. Cumberland | Royal Museums Greenwich". Rmg.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. "History : HMS Cumberland : Type 22 Frigates : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  4. "Naval and Military". Daily News. No. 3820. London. 12 August 1858.
  5. "HMS Cumberland (1842)". Britainsnavy.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  6. Neilson, Barbara (30 March 2022). "City ship helped train homeless boys for life at sea". Glasgow Times. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  7. Coast Seamen's Journal (Sept.15,1915-Sept.6,1916). Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022. Training boys for the sea{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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