HMS Marlborough (1807)

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Marlborough
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Marlborough
Ordered31 January 1805
BuilderBarnard, Deptford
Laid downAugust 1805
Launched22 June 1807
FateBroken up, 1835
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Fame-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1754 bm
Length175 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 74 guns:
  • 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 Marlborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1807 at Deptford. [1] In 1808, she helped escort the Portuguese royal family in its flight from Portugal to Brazil. In 1812 Marlborough became the flagship to Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn off Cadiz, from where she went to the North America Station and took part in the capture of Washington in August 1814. [2]

Marlborough was laid up in Ordinary at Portsmouth from 1816 and broken up there in July 1835. [1] [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p188.
  2. 1 2 Winfield, British Warships.

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