HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)

Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Queen Charlotte
NamesakeCharlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Ordered9 July 1801
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downOctober 1805
Launched17 July 1810[1]
CommissionedJanuary 1813
FateSold, 12 January 1892
General characteristics [2]
Class and type104-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen2289 bm
Length190 ft 0+12 in (57.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam52 ft 5+34 in (16.0 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 4 in (6.8 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • Gundeck: 30 × 32-pounder guns
  • Middle gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 30 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford. She replaced the first Queen Charlotte sunk in 1800.

  1. ^ The Times (London), Wednesday, 18 July 1810, p.3
  2. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p. 187.

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