HMS Warspite (1807)
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Hull plan for Warspite and Colossus
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| Name: | HMS Warspite |
| Ordered: | 13 January 1798 |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 3 December 1805 |
| Launched: | 16 November 1807 |
| Decommissioned: | 1815 |
| Notes: | original construction cost £59,725 |
| Recommissioned: | As a 76-gun ship, 1817 |
| Recommissioned: | As a 50-gun frigate, 1840 |
| Decommissioned: | 1846 |
| Reclassified: | Boys' training ship, 1862 |
| Fate: | Burnt, 3 January 1876 |
| General characteristics As built |
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| Class and type: | 74-gun third-rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1890 bm |
| Length: | 179 ft 10 in (54.8 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 49 ft (14.9 m) |
| Draught: | Underside of keel to uppermost point of taffrail 16.5m |
| Depth of hold: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 600 |
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| Notes: | One of the earliest to be refitted with diagonal framing trusses |
| General characteristics 1840 razee |
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| Class and type: | 50-gun frigate |
| Length: | 179 ft 10 in (54.8 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 49 ft (14.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 10 in (4.2 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 475 |
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HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1807. She served in the Napoleonic Wars and was decommissioned in 1815. After conversion to a 76-gun ship in 1817 she circumnavigated the world, visiting Australia. She was cut down to a single decker 50-gun frigate in 1840 and was decommissioned in 1846. She was lent as a boys' training ship to The Marine Society and was lost to fire in 1876.
After a long delay due to shortage of timber, Warspite was launched on 16 November 1807 at Chatham and commissioned by Sir Henry Blackwood, Admiral Lord Nelson's ‘favourite frigate captain’. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the second, and last, ship of a class of two (the other being Colossus). As a large '74', she carried 24-pdrs on her upper gun deck instead of the 18-pdrs found on the middling and common class 74s.
Warspite spent three years between 1807 and 1810 playing a supporting role in the Peninsular War. She took part in the long blockade of Toulon in 1810. She then joined the Channel Fleet, protecting British trade while intercepting French and American ships. During early 1813 Warspite took a couple of lucrative ‘prizes’ including a US schooner bound for Philadelphia ‘with brandy, wine, silks, etc.,’ from France. In June 1814 her name appears for the first time on the North American and West Indies Station, when she carried reinforcements to Quebec; the first 74-gun ship to go so far up the Saint Lawrence River, under Captain Lord James O'Brien.
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