HMS Stirling Castle (1811)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Stirling Castle.

History

UK
Name:	HMS Stirling Castle
Ordered:	12 August 1807
Builder:	Ross, Rochester
Laid down:	July 1808
Launched:	31 December 1811
Fate:	Broken up, 1861
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type:	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1774 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:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Stirling Castle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 December 1811 at Rochester.^[1]

She became a prison ship in 1839, and was broken up in 1861.^[1]

Notes

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.

Vengeur-class ships of the line

Ajax Berwick Rodney Poictiers Vigo Cressy Egmont Armada America Vengeur Conquestador Edinburgh Barham Hogue Duncan Asia Stirling Castle Mulgrave Cornwall Dublin Gloucester Scarborough Clarence Anson Pembroke Rippon Devonshire Medway Indus Benbow Cornwallis Blenheim Vindictive Redoubtable Defence Hercules Pitt Hero Agincourt Russell

Preceded by: Swiftsure class Followed by: Black Prince class

List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy

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