HMS Wellington (1816)

HMS Wellington was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 September 1816 at Deptford Dockyard.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hero and HMS Wellington.

Wellington
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Hero
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downJuly 1813
Launched21 September 1816
RenamedHMS Wellington, 4 December 1816
FateSold, 1908
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeVengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1756 bm
Length176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold21 ft (6.4 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

The ship had originally been named HMS Hero, but was renamed Wellington on 4 December 1816. She became a training ship in 1862, and Wellington was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1908.[1]

In 1826, HMS Wellington introduced mosquitos to the Hawaiian islands. These mosquitoes were introduced to a stream on Maui when sailors seeking fresh water rinsed out their water barrels in the stream. Prior to this, no mosquitoes lived in Hawaii.[2]

Fleet Forming Line Abreast at the 1853 Review, Illustrated London News

Fate

Wellington was converted to a training ship and named Akbar on 10 May 1862. In January 1877, she was driven ashore at Rock Ferry, Cheshire. She was refloated on 4 January.[3] Akbar served in as a training ship until 1908. She arrived at Thos. W. Ward, Morecambe on 8 April 1908 for breaking up.

Notes
  1. Lavery (2003), p.189.
  2. Patterson, Gordon (6 April 2009). The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813547008. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  3. "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 28832. London. 6 January 1877. col F, p. 7.

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.


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