HMS Fame (1805)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Fame.
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Fame
Ordered: 15 October 1799
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: 22 January 1802
Launched: 8 October 1805
Fate: Broken up, 1817
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Fame-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1745 (bm)
Length: 175 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 8 in (14.53 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Fame was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard.[1] She was constructed on the same building slip as was HMS Courageux, her keel having been ordered to be laid down on it immediately after the other ship's launch on 26 March 1800.[2] The first elements of her keel were finally laid down on 22 January 1802, and Fame was launched on 8 October 1805.[1]

Service

In November 1808, whilst under the command of Captain Bennet, Fame joined a squadron lying off Rosas, where Captain Lord Cochrane was assisting the Spanish in the defence of Castell de la Trinitat against the invading French army. Boats from Fame helped evacuate Cochrane's garrison forces after the fort's surrender on 5 December.[2]

Fate

Fame was laid up in ordinary at Chatham in 1815. She was broken up in 1817.[1][2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p185.
  2. 1 2 3 Phillips, Michael. Fame (74) (1805). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 17 May 2009.

References

  • 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.


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