HMS Warspite (1807)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Warspite.
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. She was re-rated as a 76-gun ship in 1817 and then circumnavigated the world in 1826-27, 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.
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The Warspite returning to Spithead from her voyage round the World, 28 July 1827 | |
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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[1] | |
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[2] | |
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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