HMS Formidable (1825)

History

UK
Name:	HMS Formidable
Ordered:	8 May 1815
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	October 1819
Launched:	19 May 1825
Fate:	Sold, 1906
General characteristics
Class and type:	Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2289 bm
Length:	193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	52 ft 4 ¹⁄₂ in (16.0 m) (16 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	84 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Formidable was an 84-gun second rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard.

In 1869 Formidable became a training ship, at the National Nautical School in Portishead, and she was sold out of the navy in 1906.

Records of the National Nautical School are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 38087) (online catalogue).