HMS Talbot (1824)

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H.M.S. Talbot, Captain Hon. F. Spencer in Action on Naverino, 20 October 1827 36624.jpg
HMS Talbot, Captain Hon. F. Spencer in action at the Battle of Navarino by John Christian Schetky
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameTalbot
Ordered30 April 1818
Builder Pembroke Dockyard
Laid downMarch 1821
Launched9 October 1824
Completed21 December 1825
Commissioned21 September 1825
ReclassifiedAs a depot ship, February 1855
FateSold for scrap, 5 March 1896
General characteristics
Class and type Atholl-class frigate
Tons burthen50018⁄94 bm
Length
  • 113 ft 8 in (34.6 m) (gundeck)
  • 94 ft 8 in (28.9 m) (keel)
Beam31 ft 10 in (9.7 m)
Draught12 ft (3.7 m)
Depth8 ft 9 in (2.7 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement175
Armament

HMS Talbot was a 28-gun Atholl-class sixth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

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Description

HMS Phoenix, HMS Talbot and HMS Diligence at anchor in Holsteinborg from 8-17 June 1854 HMS Phoenix (1832), HMS Talbot (1824) and HMS Diligence (1814) at anchor, Holsteinborg RMG G04254.tiff
HMS Phoenix, HMS Talbot and HMS Diligence at anchor in Holsteinborg from 8–17 June 1854

Talbot had a length at the gundeck of 113 feet 8 inches (34.6 m) and 94 feet 8 inches (28.9 m) at the keel. She had a beam of 31 feet 10 inches (9.7 m), a draught of 12 feet (3.7 m) and a depth of hold of 8 feet 9 inches (2.7 m). The ship's tonnage was 500 18⁄94 tons burthen. [1] The Atholl class was armed with twenty 32-pounder carronades on her gundeck, six 32-pounder carronades on her quarterdeck and a pair of 9-pounder cannon in the forecastle. The ships had a crew of 175 officers and ratings. [2]

Construction and career

Talbot, the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy, [3] was ordered on 30 April 1818, laid down in March 1821 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 9 October 1824. [2] She was completed on 21 December 1824 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on 21 September of that year. [1]

She was a participant at the Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827.

She took part in Inglefield's 1854 Arctic expedition as a depot ship.

Recovering the bodies from the sinking of SS Princess Alice The Collision on the Thames, Saturday 14 September 1878, The Graphic, Page 4 - Off Beckton--the Scene of the Disaster - Getting up the Bodies.jpg
Recovering the bodies from the sinking of SS Princess Alice

As a powder magazine off Beckton she overlooked the disastrous sinking of SS Princess Alice, a collision on the Thames on 14 September 1878.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Winfield, p. 795
  2. 1 2 Winfield & Lyon, p. 112
  3. ↑ Colledge, p. 343

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