HMS Neptune (1832)

Neptune portrayed in the Illustrated London News, 1854
History
UK
Name:	HMS Neptune
Namesake:	Neptune
Builder:	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down:	January 1827
Launched:	22 September 1832
Fate:	Sold, 1875
General characteristics
Class and type:	Broadened Caledonia-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2694 bm
Length:	205 ft 5.5 in (62.624 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	54 ft 6 in (16.61 m)
Depth of hold:	23 ft 2 in (7.06 m)
Propulsion:	Sail
Sail plan:	full-rigged ship
Armament:	120 guns: Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68-pdr carronades Middle gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs Quarterdeck: 2 × 18 pdrs, 14 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 18 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Neptune was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1832 at Portsmouth.

She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1875.