HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)

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.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Queen Charlotte.

Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Queen Charlotte
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+1⁄2 in (57.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam52 ft 5+3⁄4 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

Career

A Black sailor from Grenada named William Brown was discharged from Queen Charlotte in 1815 for being a woman.

She was Lord Exmouth's flagship during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816.

On 17 September 1817, Linnet, a tender to Queen Charlotte, seized a smuggled cargo of tobacco. The officers and crew of Queen Charlotte shared in the prize money.[Note 1]

On 17 December 1823, Queen Charlotte was driven into the British ship Brothers at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.[4] Brothers suffered severe damage in the collision.[4]

Representations of Queen Charlotte
  • Council of war on board Queen Charlotte, 1818, by Nicolaas Baur
    Council of war on board Queen Charlotte, 1818, by Nicolaas Baur
  • Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
    Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers

Fate
The Excellent, in Portsmouth Harbour c. 1862, firing her great gun in a practice drill. George Washington Wilson

Queen Charlotte was converted to serve as a training ship in 1859 and renamed HMS Excellent. She was eventually sold out of the service to be broken up in 1892.[2]

Notes
  1. A first-class share was worth £101 18s 8d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 8s 2¼d.[3]

Citations
  1. The Times (London), Wednesday, 18 July 1810, p.3
  2. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p187.
  3. "No. 17360". The London Gazette. 16 May 1818. p. 892.
  4. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5865): 78 v. 19 December 1823.

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.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008): British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793 - 1817. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.


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