HMS Wellington (1816)

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Wellington
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Hero
Builder Deptford Dockyard
Laid downJuly 1813
Launched21 September 1816
RenamedHMS Wellington, 4 December 1816
FateSold, 1908
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1756 bm
Length176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold21 ft (6.4 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: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Wellington was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 September 1816 at Deptford Dockyard. [1]

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The ship had originally been named HMS Hero, but was renamed Wellington on 4 December 1816. She became a training ship in 1862, and Wellington was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1908. [1]

In 1826, HMS Wellington introduced mosquitos to the Hawaiian islands. These mosquitoes were introduced to a stream on Maui when sailors seeking fresh water rinsed out their water barrels in the stream. Prior to this, no mosquitoes lived in Hawaii. [2]

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Fleet Forming Line Abreast at the 1853 Review, Illustrated London News

Fate

Wellington was converted to a training ship and named Akbar on 10 May 1862.[ citation needed ] In January 1877, she was driven ashore at Rock Ferry, Cheshire. She was refloated on 4 January. [3] Akbar served in as a training ship until 1908. She arrived at Thos. W. Ward, Morecambe on 8 April 1908 for breaking up.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery (2003), p.189.
  2. ↑ Patterson, Gordon (6 April 2009). The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day. Rutgers University Press. ISBN   9780813547008 . Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 28832. London. 6 January 1877. col F, p. 7.

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