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SHIPS-OF-THE-LINE, CAPITAL SHIPS & MONITORS

GANGES 2nd rate ships-of-the-line (1782-1816)

 

Name

 No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate
Ganges     Randall, Rotherhithe 4.1780 30.3.1782 20.4.1782 prison ship 10.1811
Culloden     Randall, Rotherhithe 2.1782 16.6.1783 5.7.1783 BU 2.1813
Tremendous, 5.1845- Grampus     Barnard, Deptford Green 13.8.1782 30.10.1784 28.1.1785 frigate 1.1846, powder hulk 1856
Invincible     Woolwich DYd 1.1.1806 15.3.1808 11.4.1808 receiving ship and coal depot 1855
Minden     East India Co, Bombay 1807 19.6.1810 15.7.1812 hospital vessel 1842
Minotaur     Chatham DYd 12.1812 15.4.1816 14.10.1816 receiving ship 3.1842

 

Displacement normal, t

1657bm

Displacement full, t

  

Length, m

51.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

14.4

Draught, m

6.17 hold depth

No of shafts

  

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

  

Max speed, kts

  

Fuel, t

  
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

Ganges, Culloden, Tremendous: 28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML

Invincible: 28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML caronades, 28 x 1 - 147/15 24pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML

Minden: 28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML caronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML

Minotaur: 28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML

Complement

590

Project history: 74-gun two-deckers. Edward Hunt's design.

Modernizations: 1.1811, Tremendous: was reconstructed with diagonal framing: 1707bm, 52.1x14.6m, 28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML, complement 550

1820s, Tremendous, Invincible, Minden, Minotaur: - 2 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr, 2 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr; + 4 x 1 - 205/7 68pdr SBML carronades

1/1846, Grampus: as frigate: was armed with 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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