History | |
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UK | |
Name: | HMS Cumberland |
Ordered: | 31 January 1805 |
Builder: | Pitcher, Northfleet |
Laid down: | August 1805 |
Launched: | 19 August 1807 |
Renamed: | 1833 |
Fate: | Converted to prison ship, 1830 |
UK | |
Name: | HMS Fortitude |
Fate: | Sold, 1870 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Repulse-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1718 16⁄94 (bm) |
Length: | 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m) |
Depth of hold: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Armament: |
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HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 August 1807 at Northfleet. During the Napoleonic wars she brought King William I of the Netherlands from London to The Netherlands.
She was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1830. She was renamed Fortitude in 1833.
She was eventually sold out of the service in 1870.