HMS Belleisle (1819)
The hospital ship Belleisle taking provisions during the Crimean War
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Belleisle |
Ordered | 17 November 1812 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | February 1816 |
Launched | 26 April 1819 |
Fate | Broken up, 1872 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type |
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Tons burthen | 1709 bm |
Length | 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck) |
Beam | 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m) |
Depth of hold | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament |
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HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]
Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841.[1] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June.[2]
Belleisle was subsequently used as a hospital ship at Chatham. In June 1866, she was lent by the Admiralty to the Seamen's Hospital Society for use as a hospitaly ship in London for seamen suffering from cholera. Whilst being towed up the River Thames by the tug Medusa, she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide.[3] Belleisle was broken up in 1872.[1]
Notes[]
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.
External links[]
- Media related to HMS Belleisle (1819) at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
- Repulse-class ships of the line
- Troop ships of the Royal Navy
- Ships built in Pembroke Dock
- 1819 ships
- Hospital ships of the Royal Navy
- Crimean War naval ships of the United Kingdom
- Maritime incidents in June 1856
- Maritime incidents in June 1866
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