HMS Pembroke (1812)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pembroke.
History
UK
Name: HMS Pembroke
Ordered: 17 May 1808
Builder: Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard
Laid down: March 1809
Launched: 27 June 1812
Fate: Sold, 1905
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1758 bm
Length: 176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 June 1812 at Blackwall Yard.[1]

Pembroke was in company with Alcmene and Aigle on 11 April 1814 when they captured Fortune, Notre Dame de Leusainte, and a settee of unknown name.[Note 1]

She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887.

She was renamed HMS Forte as a receiving hulk in 1890, and was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1905.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
  1. ↑ A first-class share o fthe prize money was worth £95 4s 0d; a sixth-class sahre, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 12 s 7d.[2]
Citations
  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p189.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16943. p. 2009. 8 October 1814.
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.


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