HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)

	Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Queen Charlotte
Namesake	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Ordered	9 July 1801
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	October 1805
Launched	17 July 1810
Commissioned	January 1813
Fate	Sold, 12 January 1892
General characteristics
Class and type	104-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	2289 bm
Length	190 ft 0+1⁄2 in (57.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam	52 ft 5+3⁄4 in (16.0 m)
Depth of hold	22 ft 4 in (6.8 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-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;

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.

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
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

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

Citations

^ The Times (London), Wednesday, 18 July 1810, p.3
^ ^a ^b Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p. 187.
^ "No. 17360". The London Gazette. 16 May 1818. p. 892.
^ ^a ^b "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.

External links

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

[Times18100718-1] The Times (London), Wednesday, 18 July 1810, p.3

[Lavery,_SoLv1_p187-2] Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p. 187.

[3] "No. 17360". The London Gazette. 16 May 1818. p. 892.

[LL191223a-5] "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5865): 78 v. 19 December 1823.

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