HMS Waterloo (1818)

	The then HMS Bellerophon, 50 Miles off the coast of Malta, c. 1852
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Waterloo
Ordered	1809
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	November 1813
Launched	16 October 1818
Renamed	HMS Bellerophon, 1824
Fate	Sold, 1892
General characteristics
Class and type	80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	2041 bm
Length	192 ft (59 m) (gundeck)
Beam	49 ft (15 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	80 guns:; Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 32 × 18 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades; Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades;

HMS Waterloo was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line, launched on 16 October 1818 at Portsmouth. She was designed by , and was the only ship built to her draught. She had originally been ordered as HMS Talavera, but was renamed on the stocks after the Battle of Waterloo.^[1]

In 1824 Waterloo was renamed HMS Bellerophon. She formed part of an experimental squadron, which were groups of ships sent out in the 1830s and 1840s to test new techniques of ship design, armament, building and propulsion.

Bellerophon leading the bombardment of the Syrian fortress of Acre. Thomas Baines

She was placed on harbour service in 1848, and was sold in 1892.^[1]

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 187.

References[]

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p187-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 187.

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History
The then HMS Bellerophon, 50 Miles off the coast of Malta, c. 1852
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Waterloo
Ordered	1809
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	November 1813
Launched	16 October 1818
Renamed	HMS Bellerophon, 1824
Fate	Sold, 1892
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type	80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	2041 bm
Length	192 ft (59 m) (gundeck)
Beam	49 ft (15 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	80 guns: Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 32 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades