HMS Armada (1810)
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| Name: | HMS Armada |
| Ordered: | 21 October 1806 |
| Builder: | Blackburn, Turnchapel |
| Laid down: | February 1807 |
| Launched: | 23 March 1810 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1863 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Venguer-class third-rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1749 34⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck); 145 ft (44.2 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 7 1⁄2 in (14.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Armada was a Royal Navy 74-gun third-rate ship of the line. Mrs Pridham, the wife of the Mayor of Plymouth, Mr Joseph Pridham, launched her on 23 March 1810. After a relatively undistinguished career, Armada was sold out of the Navy in 1863 and broken up at Marshall's ship breaking yard in Plymouth. She was the first ship to carry the name.
Captain Adam Mackenzie commissioned her for the Texel. On 9 November 1810, Armada was among the vessels in sight when the 36-gun fifth rate Curacoa captured the French privateer Venus. Then on 22 November, Armada was in the company of the 74-gun Northumberland when Northumberland captured the 14-gun French privateer ketch Glaneuse of Saint Maloes, which was under the command of a Dane, Mr. Anthe Haste. Glaneuse was only six months old and was six weeks into her first cruise, having made no captures.
On 1 February 1811 Armada was one of a number of vessels that were in company when Hero captured the American schooner Beauty.
In January 1812 Captain R.F. Devonshire briefly took command. That same month Captain Charles Grant replaced him.
On 23 July 1813, the seas pushed Armada into range of French batteries at Borgidhero. The batteries opened fire but the shots went over Armada. Armada landed her marines who captured the eastern battery and then entered the battery on the point of Borgidhero after the French had tried to blow it up. The marines spiked the guns. The landing party took fire from the nearby town so the frigates accompanying Armada fired on the town while the landing party burnt some vessels on the shore. Armada suffered two men wounded in the engagement.
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