NAVYPEDIA

Ships

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

Technical data

Data variant	sail	screw
Displacement normal, t	1741bm	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	53.6 gundeck	Pembroke: 53.6 gundeck Blenheim: 55.2 gundeck Hogue, Ajax, Edinburgh, Russell: 56.1 gundeck
Breadth, m	14.5	14.7
Draught, m	6.40 hold depth	6.40 hold depth
No of shafts		1
Machinery	sails	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	28 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 18 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML	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	590	600

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