Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
Vindictive | Portsmouth DYd | 7.1808 | 23.11.1813 | 12.1813 | frigate 1.1833, depot ship 1.1862 | ||
Cressy | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury | 3.1807 | 7.3.1810 | 9.5.1810 | BU 12.1832 | ||
Poictiers | John King, Upnor | 8.1807 | 9.12.1809 | 4.5.1810 | guardship 9.1837 | ||
Hogue | Deptford DYd | 4.1808 | 3.10.1811 | 25.1.1812 | screw blockship 6.1849, BU 1865 | ||
Vigo | Charles Ross, Rochester | 4.1807 | 21.2.1810 | 20.4.1810 | receiving ship 7.1827 | ||
Armada | Isaac Blackburn, Turnchapel, Plymouth | 2.1807 | 22.3.1810 | 27.9.1810 | powder hulk 4.1844 | ||
Vengeur | Joseph Graham, Harwich | 7.1807 | 19.6.1810 | 30.10.1810 | receiving ship 2.1824 | ||
Conquestador | Robert Guillaume, Northam | 8.1807 | 1.8.1810 | 21.3.1811 | frigate 3.1827, powder depot 12.1856 | ||
Redoubtable | Woolwich DYd | 4.1809 | 26.1.1815 | 1815 | not commissioned, BU 5.1841 | ||
Pitt | Portsmouth DYd | 5.1813 | 13.4.1816 | 9.1832 | not commissioned, coal depot 5.1853 | ||
Mulgrave | John King, Upnor | 2.1808 | 1.1.1812 | 22.11.1812 | lazarette 9.1836 | ||
Ajax | Perry, Wells & Green, Blackwall | 8.1807 | 2.5.1809 | 15.6.1809 | screw blockship 9.1848, BU 1864 | ||
Berwick | Perry, Wells & Green, Blackwall | 10.1807 | 11.9.1809 | 17.11.1809 | BU 3.1821 | ||
Egmont | Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet | 10.1807 | 7.3.1810 | 20.4.1810 | storeship 10.1862 | ||
Edinburgh | Samuel & Daniel Brent, Rotherhithe | 11.1807 | 26.1.1811 | 7.5.1811 | screw blockship 8.1852, guardship 8.1856 | ||
Clarence, 5.1827- Centurion | Isaac Blackburn, Turnchapel, Plymouth | 11.1807 | 11.4.1812 | 9.9.1812 | BU 10.1828 | ||
Scarborough | Joseph Graham, Harwich | 1.1808 | 29.3.1812 | 18.3.1813 | sold 9.1836 | ||
Asia, 1819- Alfred | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury | 2.1808 | 2.12.1811 | 9.5.1812 | frigate 8.1828, BU 5.1865 | ||
Rodney, 5.1827- Greenwich | Mrs Frances Barnard, Deptford | 3.1808 | 8.12.1809 | 10.4.1810 | sold 9.1836 | ||
Duncan | John Dudman, Deptford | 8.1808 | 2.12.1811 | 26.2.1812 | lazarette 7.1826 | ||
Indus, 11.1818- Bellona | John Dudman, Deptford | 4.1809 | 19.12.1812 | 30.3.1813 | receiving ship 6.1842 | ||
Dublin | Samuel & Daniel Brent, Rotherhithe | 5.1809 | 13.2.1812 | 25.4.1812 | frigate 12.1826, receiving ship 1860 | ||
Stirling Castle | Mrs Mary Ross, Rochester | 7.1808 | 31.12.1811 | 25.2.1812 | convict ship 4.1839 | ||
Medway | Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet | 12.1808 | 19.11.1812 | 9.7.1813 | convict ship 10.1847 | ||
America | Perry & Co, Blackwall | 1.1808 | 21.4.1810 | 11.6.1810 | frigate 2.1835, target 3.1864 | ||
Anson | Thomas Steemson, Hull | 3.1808 | 11.5.1812 | 11.8.1812 | convict ship 8.1843 | ||
Barham | Perry & Co, Blackwall | 6.1808 | 8.7.1811 | 21.8.1811 | frigate 12.1826, BU 3.1840 | ||
Rippon | Richard Blake & John Scott, Bursledon | 10.1808 | 8.8.1812 | 12.5.1813 | BU 3.1821 | ||
Blenheim | Deptford DYd | 8.1808 | 31.5.1813 | 22.7.1813 | screw blockship 3.1847, coastguard ship 4.1858 | ||
Pembroke | Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall | 3.1809 | 27.6.1812 | 5.11.1812 | screw blockship 5.1855, barrack ship 4.1873 | ||
Cornwall | Mrs Frances Barnard, Deptford | 3.1809 | 16.1.1812 | 7.3.1812 | frigate 5.1830, Reformatory School 4.1859 | ||
Devonshire | Mrs Frances Barnard, Deptford | 2.1810 | 23.9.1812 | 2.12.1812 | hospital ship 11.1849 | ||
Gloucester | Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet | 3.1808 | 27.2.1812 | 11.6.1812 | frigate 12.1832, receiving ship 8.1861 | ||
Benbow | Samuel & Daniel Brent, Rotherhithe | 7.1808 | 3.2.1813 | 17.5.1813 | marine barracks 2.1848 | ||
Defence (ex-Marathon) | Chatham DYd | 5.1812 | 25.4.1815 | 7.6.1815 | convict ship 9.1851 | ||
Hercules | Chatham DYd | 8.1812 | 5.9.1815 | 17.11.1815 | Army depot ship 1853 | ||
Cornwallis | Bombay DYd | 1811 | 12.5.1813 | 25.12.1814 | screw blockship 4.1855, floating pier 1865 | ||
Agincourt | Plymouth DYd | 5.1813 | 19.3.1817 | 4.1817 | depot ship 1.1848 | ||
Wellington (ex-Hero) | Deptford DYd | 7.1813 | 21.9.1816 | 6.12.1816 | receiving and depot ship 6.1848 | ||
Russell | Deptford DYd | 8.1814 | 22.5.1822 | 1822 | screw blockship 6.1855, coastguard ship 3.1858, BU 1865 |
Data variant | sail |
Displacement normal, t |
1741bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
53.6 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
14.5 |
Draught, m |
6.40 hold depth |
No of shafts |
|
Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
|
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML |
Complement |
590 |
Project history: 74-gun two-deckers. Designed jointly by Peake and Rule and thus known as the 'Surveyors Class'. Were probably as successful a design as most. Largest class of battleships ever built to one design by any navy. Design was approved in 1806.
Modernizations: 1822, Gloucester: was rebuilt with circular stern: 54.0m gundeck, 1797bm
1826, Dublin, Barham; 1828, Alfred; 1830, Cornwall; 1831, Conquestador; 1832, Gloucester; 1833, Vindictive: as frigates: were armed with 28 x 1 - 173/8 42pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML
1847, Blenheim; 1848, Ajax; 1849, Hogue; 1852, Edinburgh; 1855, Pembroke, Cornwallis, Russell: were converted to screw blockships with data as given in the table
Data variant | screw |
Displacement normal, t |
Blenheim: 1832bm 2912 normal Hogue: 1846bm 3054 normal Ajax: 1761bm 2828 normal Edinburgh: 1772bm 2598 normal Pembroke: 1758bm 2465 normal Cornwallis: 1809bm 2678 normal Russell: 1751bm 2903 normal |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
Pembroke: 53.6 gundeck Blenheim: 55.2 gundeck Hogue, Ajax, Edinburgh, Russell: 56.1 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
14.7 |
Draught, m |
6.40 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
sails + 4 boilers, 1 4-cyl HSE |
Power, h. p. |
Hogue: 793ihp Ajax: 846ihp Edinburgh: 963ihp Blenheim: 938ihp Pembroke: 572ihp Cornwallis: 787ihp Russell: 578ihp |
Max speed, kts |
Hogue: 7.8 Ajax: 7.1 Edinburgh: 8.9 Blenheim: 5.8 Pembroke: 7.6 Cornwallis: 7.2 Russell: 6.7 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
4 x 1 - 254/10 10'' 67cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr 52cwt shell SBML, 28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML |
Complement |
600 |
Naval service: No significant events.
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