HMS Asia (1811)

Watercolor by an unidentified artist, depicting the ship at Malta.
History
UK
Name:	HMS Asia
Ordered:	13 July 1807
Builder:	Brindley, Frindsbury
Laid down:	February 1808
Launched:	2 December 1811
Fate:	Broken up, 1865
General characteristics
Class and type:	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1763 (bm)
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Asia was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 December 1811 at Frindsbury.

Asia was off Chesapeake Bay in July 1814. The Royal Marine Artillery company of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Marines were ferried from Bermuda to the Chesapeake aboard Asia, via HMS Tonnant. During the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Asia was moored off Baltimore, along with Seahorse, Severn and Surprise.Asia was among Admiral Alexander Cochrane's fleet moored off New Orleans at the start of 1815. In support of the attack on New Orleans, 107 Royal Marines from Asia were disembarked.

In 1828 Asia was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and was eventually broken up in 1865.