HMS Elizabeth (1807)

HMS Elizabeth was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 May 1807 at Blackwall.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Elizabeth.

Elizabeth
History
UK
Name: HMS Elizabeth
Builder: Wells, Blackwall
Laid down: August 1805
Launched: 23 May 1807
Fate: Broken up, 1820
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Repulse-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1724 (bm)
Length: 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Career

On 25 May 1814, Elizabeth captured the French naval xebec Aigle and her prize, the Glorioso off Corfu. Weazel shared in the prize money though it was the boats of Elizabeth that performed the actual capture in an action that in 1847 earned for their crews the Naval General Service Medal with clasp, "24 May Boat Service 1814".[2][Note 1] Aigle was armed with six guns, a howitzer, and three swivel guns, and had a crew of 40 men. The capture of the Aigle represented the last naval surrender of the French Tricolour in the Napoleonic Wars.[4]

Fate

Elizabeth was broken up in 1820.[1]

Footnotes

Notes

  1. A first-class share of the prize money was worth £61 7¼d; a sixth-class share was worth 9s 2¼d.[3]

Citations

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p188.
  2. "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 247.
  3. "No. 17032". The London Gazette. 1 July 1815. p. 1287.
  4. Literary Panorama and National Register, Volume 7, pp.149-150.

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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