HMS Culloden (1783)
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| Name: | HMS Culloden |
| Ordered: | 12 July 1779 |
| Builder: | Randall, Rotherhithe |
| Laid down: | January 1782 |
| Launched: | 16 June 1783 |
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| Fate: | Broken up, February 1813 |
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| Class and type: | Ganges-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1683 (bm) |
| Length: | 169 ft 6 in (51.7 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 8 1⁄2 in (14.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 20 ft 3 in (6.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 June 1783 at Rotherhithe. She took part in some of the most famous battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars before she was broken up in 1813.
One of her first engagements was at the Glorious First of June, under Captain Isaac Schomberg. She was captained by Sir Thomas Troubridge in the Battle of Cape St Vincent, in which he led the line. Culloden was damaged, and had 10 men killed and 47 wounded. She later took part in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. She participated in the Battle of the Nile, but ran aground on shoals before being able to engage the French fleet, and subsequently did not actively engage the enemy. She was assisted by HMS Mutine whilst aground.
Culloden, Captain Christopher Cole, captured the French privateer Émilien on 26 September 1807 after a chase that lasted two days and a night. He described her as a ship corvette of 18 guns and 150 men. When the British took possession of Emilien at 2a.m. on the 25th, close off the shoals of Point Guadaveri they found out that they had driven her ashore the night before. She had had to jettison 12 guns, her anchors, and her boats, to enable her to be refloated. Cole noted that Émilien was "formerly His Majesty's Sloop Trincomalee". He further noted that she was copper fastened, and that under the name of Gloire had "annoyed our Trade". However, on this cruise she was two months out of Île de France without having made any captures. The Royal Navy took Émilien into service as HMS Emilien, but sold her in 1808 and it is not clear that she ever saw active service.
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