HMS Impregnable (1810)
Quarterdeck of HMS Impregnable
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| Name: | HMS Impregnable |
| Ordered: | 13 January 1798 |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | February 1802 |
| Launched: | 1 August 1810 |
| Renamed: | HMS Kent, HMS Caledonia |
| Fate: | Sold, 1906 |
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| Class and type: | 98-gun second rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 2406 bm |
| Length: | 197 ft (60 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 51 ft (16 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
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HMS Impregnable was a 98-gun second rate three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Chatham. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to her draught. Purportedly as originally built she was a near copy of the famed first rate HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.
During the Napoleonic Wars, she was used as the flagship of the Admiral the Duke of Clarence (later King William IV). She took part in the bombardment of Algiers in 1816 under the command of Admiral David Milne where she was second in the order of battle. In the attack on Algiers, Impregnable, isolated from the other ships was a large and tempting target, attracting attention from the Algerian gunners who raked her fore and aft, she was severely damaged. 268 shots hit the hull, the main mast was damaged in 15 places.Impregnable lost Mr. John Hawkins, midshipman, 37 seamen, 10 marines and 2 boys killed and Mr. G. N. Wesley, Mr. Henry Quinn, 111 seamen, 21 marines, 9 sappers and miners and 17 boys wounded. The Impregnable saw little further action, apart from a short commission in the Mediterranean, and in 1819 she was placed in the Reserve Fleet at Devonport. From May 1839 to October 1841 she had relieved HMS Royal Adelaide as the Commander-in-Chief's flagship moored at the entrance to the Hamoaze. She then saw service again in the Mediterranean until May 1843, when she was once again laid up with the reserve fleet at Devonport.
Impregnable was rated as a training ship in 1862 and removed from the reserve fleet to begin service at Devonport training boy seamen for the Royal Navy.
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