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HMS Black Prince (1816)

History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name: HMS Black Prince
Ordered: 14 August 1810
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down: July 1814
Launched: 30 March 1816
Fate: Broken up, 1855
General characteristics
Class and type: Black Prince-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1751 bm
Length:
  • 176 ft 1 in (53.67 m) (gundeck)
  • 144 ft 10.375 in (44.15473 m) (keel)
Beam: 47 ft 8 in (14.53 m)
Depth of hold: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Black Prince was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard.

In 1848 Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855.



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