![]() Plan of Powerful
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History | |
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Name | HMS Powerful |
Ordered | 8 July 1780 |
Builder | Perry, Blackwall Yard |
Laid down | April 1781 |
Launched | 3 April 1783 |
Commissioned | 22 April 1783 |
Decommissioned | October 1809 |
Fate | Broken up, 1812 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Elizabeth-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1627 (bm) |
Length | 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck) |
Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
Depth of hold | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament |
HMS Powerful was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.[1] She took part in the defeat of a Dutch fleet in the Battle of Camperdown in 1797, the capture of a French privateer in the action of 9 July 1806, in operations against the Dutch in the East Indies during the raids on Batavia and Griessie in 1806 and 1807, and finally in the Walcheren Campaign during 1809.