HMS Defence (1815)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Defence.

History

UK
Name:	HMS Defence
Ordered:	23 March 1809
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	May 1812
Launched:	25 April 1815
Fate:	Burnt, 1857
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type:	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1754 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 Defence was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 April 1815 at Chatham.^[1]

She was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1849.^[1] Defence was badly damaged by an accidental fire, probably caused by spontaneous combustion in a load recently delivered coal,^[2] at Woolwich on 14 July 1857.^[3] The fire was extinguished by scuttling the ship^[2] and while it was not totally destroyed the remains were broken up later.^[3]

Notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 189.
1 2 The Hobart Town Mercury, 30 Oct 1857, p2
1 2 Gossett (1986), p. 114.

References

Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

Vengeur-class ships of the line

Ajax Berwick Rodney Poictiers Vigo Cressy Egmont Armada America Vengeur Conquestador Edinburgh Barham Hogue Duncan Asia Stirling Castle Mulgrave Cornwall Dublin Gloucester Scarborough Clarence Anson Pembroke Rippon Devonshire Medway Indus Benbow Cornwallis Blenheim Vindictive Redoubtable Defence Hercules Pitt Hero Agincourt Russell

Preceded by: Swiftsure class Followed by: Black Prince class

List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy

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