![]() The hospital ship Belleisle taking provisions during the Crimean War
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Name | HMS Belleisle |
Ordered | 17 November 1812 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | February 1816 |
Launched | 26 April 1819 |
Fate | Broken up, 1872 |
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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 and sailed for China in Dec. 1841 for the First Opium War. She stayed in China until the Treaty of Nanking was signed in 1842.[2] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June.[3]
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 hospital 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.[4] Belleisle was broken up in 1872.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
- ^ Carradice, Phil (15 August 2013). The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 38. ISBN 9781445613109 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Devon". The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser. No. 2771. Truro. 1 August 1856. p. 5.
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 25518. London. 7 June 1866. col E-F, p. 12.
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Media related to HMS Belleisle (1819) at Wikimedia Commons