HMS Mulgrave (1812)

History

UK
Name:	HMS Mulgrave
Ordered:	23 June 1807
Builder:	King, Upnor
Laid down:	February 1808
Launched:	1 January 1812
Fate:	Broken up, 1854
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1762 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 Mulgrave was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 January 1812 at Upnor.^[1]

Mulgrave was hulked in 1836, and broken up in 1854.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p188.

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.

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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