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HMS Stirling Castle (1811)

History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
Name: HMS Stirling Castle
Ordered: 12 August 1807
Builder: Ross, Rochester
Laid down: July 1808
Launched: 31 December 1811
Fate: Broken up, 1861
General characteristics
Class and type: Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1774 bm
Length: 176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Stirling Castle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 December 1811 at Rochester.

She became a prison ship in 1839, and was broken up in 1861.



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