HMS St Vincent (1815)

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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS St Vincent
Ordered15 January 1806
BuilderPlymouth-Dock Dockyard
Laid downMay 1810
Launched11 March 1815
FateSold, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Nelson-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2,601 bm
Length205 ft (62 m) (gundeck)
Beam53 ft 8.75 in (16.3767 m)
Depth of hold24 ft (7.3 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 120 guns:
  • Gundeck: 32 × 32 pdrs
  • Middle gundeck: 34 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 34 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS St Vincent was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1810 at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 11 March 1815. [1]

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Service

She was one of class of three, and the only one to see active service, though she was not put into commission until 1829, when she became the flagship of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, under Northesk's flag captain, Edward Hawker, at Devonport (aka Plymouth-Dock) Dockyard. After paying-off in April 1830 she was recommissioned the following month and was made flagship at Portsmouth Dockyard. From 1831 until 1834 she served in the Mediterranean.

On 18 February 1834, St Vincent was at Malta when the British merchant schooner Meteor was destroyed there by the explosion of her cargo of gunpowder with the loss of 28 lives. [2] The explosion severely damaged St Vincent and drove her aground. She was refloated on 21 February 1834 after unshipping all 120 of her cannon. [2] and subsequently was repaired and returned to service. [2]

Placed on harbour service at Portsmouth in 1841, St Vincent joined the Experimental Squadron in 1846. From May 1847 until April 1849 she was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, commanding the Channel Fleet.

After a spell in ordinary at Portsmouth, from July to September 1854, during the Crimean War, she was used to transport French troops to the Baltic.[ citation needed ] Subsequently she became a depot ship at Portsmouth. She was driven ashore there on 11 January 1862, but was refloated. [3] She was commissioned as a training ship in 1862, and specifically as a training ship for boys, moored permanently at Haslar from 1870. In this role she retained 26 guns.[ citation needed ] She continued as a training ship until 1905. Commander Cecil Thursby was in command from April 1899, succeeded by Commander Bentinck J. D. Yelverton from January 1902. [4] The final commander was G. C. Cayley, who captained the ship from 1904 until her decommissioning in 1906. She was broken up in Falmouth Docks and one of her anchors was put on display near Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth. [5]

Fate

St Vincent was sold out of the service in 1906 for breaking up. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p187.
  2. 1 2 3 "PORTSMOUTH, Saturday". The Times. No. 15421. London. 10 March 1834. col F, p. 3.
  3. ↑ "Naval Intelligence". The Times. No. 24141. London. 13 January 1862. col B-C, p. 12.
  4. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36661. London. 10 January 1902. p. 8.
  5. ↑ Gilson, Peter (1990). Falmouth in Old Photographs (First ed.). Alan Sutton. p. 78. ISBN   0-86299-719-4.

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