HMS Vengeance , a Canopus -class ship of the line
Class overview
Name Canopus -class ship of the line
Operators Royal Navy
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Vanguard class
In service 10 November 1821 - 1929
Completed 9
General characteristics
Type Ship of the line
Length
193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
160 ft 2+ 5 ⁄8 in (48.835 m) (keel)
Beam 52 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in (15.964 m)
Propulsion Sails
Armament
84 guns:
Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders, 2 × 68-pounder carronades
Upper gundeck: 32 × 24-pounders
Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
Forecastle: 2 × 24-pounders, 4 × 32-pounder carronades
Notes Ships in class include: Ganges , Asia , Vengeance , Formidable , Powerful , Clarence , Bombay , Thunderer , Monarch
The Canopus -class ships of the line were a class of nine 84-gun two-deck second rates of the Royal Navy . Their design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of the captured French ship Franklin , since commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Canopus , although this ship herself was not included as a member of the class. The earlier ships were initially ordered as 80-gun third rates , but this classification was altered by changes in the rating system in February 1817. This class of ships is sometimes referred to as the Formidable class .
Ships
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 8 May 1815
Launched: 19 May 1825
Fate: Sold, 1906
Builder: Bombay Dockyard
Ordered: 4 June 1816
Launched: 10 November 1821
Fate: Sold, 1929
Builder: Bombay Dockyard
Ordered: 22 April 1819
Launched: 19 January 1824
Fate: Sold, 1908
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Ordered: 23 January 1817
Launched: 27 July 1824
Fate: Sold, 1897
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 23 January 1817
Launched: 21 June 1826
Fate: Broken up, 1864
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Ordered: 27 May 1819
Launched: 25 July 1827
Fate: Burnt, 1884
Builder: Bombay Dockyard
Ordered: 26 January 1825
Launched: 17 February 1828
Fate: Burnt, 1864
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Ordered: 23 January 1817
Launched: 22 September 1831
Fate: Sold, 1901
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 23 July 1817
Launched: 18 December 1832
Fate: Broken up, 1866
References
Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850 . Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .
Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889 . Chatham Pub. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6 .