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HBMS Prince of Wales (1794)

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Prince of Wales, 98 Guns

Details

Nationality	British
Ordered	1783/11/29	B064
Laid Down	1784/05/00	B064
Named	1783/12/03	B064
Launched	1794/06/28	B064
Shipyard	Plymouth DY	B064
Designer	Edward Hunt	B064
Master Shipbuilder	Edward Tippett	B064
Rate	Second Rate
Type	Ship of the Line
Out Service	1822/12/26	B064
Fate	Broken Up	B064

Dimensions

Source	B064
Length of Gundeck	182' 3"
Length of Keel	149' 11³/₈"
Breadth	50' 4¹/₂"
Depth in Hold	21' 9"
Draught Forward	14' 5"
Draught Aft	18' 8"
Burthen	2,024¹/₉₄

Armament

Date	1794	B064
Lower Gun Deck	28	British 32-Pounder
Middle Gun Deck	30	British 18-Pounder
Upper Gun Deck	30	British 12-Pounder
Quarterdeck	8	British 12-Pounder
Forecastle	2	British 12-Pounder

Crew

Date	Men	Notes	Source
1794	750	Establishment	B064

Flag Officers

Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1795/01	1795/06/01	Rear-Admiral of the Blue	Henry Harvey	W031
1795/06/01	1799/02	Rear-Admiral of the Red	Henry Harvey	W031
1799/11	1800/06	Vice-Admiral	Hugh Seymour	B064
1800/07	1806	Rear-Admiral of the Blue	Robert Calder	B064
1806/01	1807/04	Vice-Admiral	Edward Thornbrough	B064
1807/04	1807/07	Rear-Admiral	Michael de Courcy	B064
1807/04	1807/07	Vice-Admiral	James Saumarez	B064

Commanders

Date From	Date to	Rank	Name	Source
1794/10	1795/12	Post Captain	John Bazely	B064
1795/12	1798/01	Post Captain	John Harvey	B064
1798/01	Unknown	Post Captain	Richard Brown	B064
1798/01	1799/06	Post Captain	Richard Brown	B064
1799/06	1800/06	Post Captain	Adrian Renou	B064
1800/07	1803/05	Post Captain	William Prowse	B064
1806/01	1806/03	Post Captain	Henry Garratt	B064
1806/03	1807/04	Post Captain	William Bedford	B064
1807/04	1807/07	Post Captain	Thomas Byam Martin	B064
1807/07	1808	Post Captain	Sir Home Popham	B064
1811/12	1812/01	Post Captain	William Bedford	B064
1812/01	1812/03	Post Captain	Thomas Burton	B064
1812/03	1812/05	Post Captain	Sir Richard King	B064
1812/05	1813	Post Captain	John Erskine Douglas	B064

Officers

Date From	Date To	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1807/07	1808	Second Captain	Adam Mackenzie	B064

Crew Members

Date From

Date To

Rank/Position

Name

Source

Service record

1794/10	Commissioned	B064
1794/12/27	Completed at a cost of £58,483 including fitting	B064
1800/09	Completed a refit at Portsmouth as a cost of £13,765	B064
1804/10	Started a refit at Portsmouth	B064
1805/01	Completed refit at a cost of £12,998	B064
1805/03	Took part in the blockade of Ferrol	B064
1805/07/22	Lost three killed and twenty wounded in Calder's Action	B064
1807/07/26	Sailed for the Baltic	B064
1808	In ordinary until 1811	B064
1809/03	Started a small to middling repair at Chatham	B064
1810/08	Completed small to middling repair at a cost of £31,659	B064
1811/12	Recommissioned	B064
1812/01	Fitted at Sheerness at a cost of £17,156	B064
1814/07	Laid up at Portsmouth	B064
1822/12/26	Break up completed at Portsmouth	B064

Actions & Battles

Date		Source
1795/06/23	Action of Ile Groix
1797/02/16	1797 Capture of Trinidad
1805/07/22	3rd Battle of Cape Finisterre
1807/08/15	Second Battle of Copenhagen

Notes

No Notes Entered

Sources

B064	British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817	Rif Winfield
W031	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	Oxford University Press

Last Updated :2008/10/19 at 19:50:45 by Cy

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