HMS Abergavenny

HMS Abergavenny

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Earl of Abergavenny Ship type Ship of the line home port Portsmouth until 1795 / Port Royal Owner East India Company / Royal Navy Shipyard in Harwich , England Keel laying March 8, 1788 Launch August 24, 1789 Commissioning 1790/1795 Whereabouts Wrecked in 1807

Ship dimensions and crew length 48.93 m ( Lüa ) 40.08 m ( KWL ) width 12.53 m measurement 1,182 tons according to the Builders Old Measurement   crew 90 (East India Company) 324 (Royal Navy)

Rigging and rigging Rigging Full ship Number of masts 3

Armament East India Company: 26 cannons (12 pounds and 9 pounds) Royal Navy: 26 × 32 pounder carronades 30 × 18 pounder cannons

The HMS Abergavenny was originally the Earl of Abergavenny and was considered an East Indiaman of the East India Company 1788/1789 in Harwich , England built. The name of the ship is based on the British noble family of that name.

As the Earl of Abergavenny , the ship made her first voyage in 1790 under the command of John Wordsworth senior, William Wordsworth's uncle . The ship left Portsmouth on January 30, 1790, sailed via Bombay and Penang to Whampoa . She returned to England on August 17, 1791. Equipped with a letter of marquee (German: Kaperbrief), the ship was armed and left Portsmouth under John Wordsworth senior again on May 22, 1793 to sail via Manila to Whampoa. She was back in England on September 7, 1794.

In April 1795, was Earl of Abergavenny from the Royal Navy put into service and after the town in Monmouthshire , Wales , in Abergavenny renamed.

The Abergavenny sailed from Portsmouth to Cork under the command of Captain Edward Tyrell Smith and transported troops to Jamaica . From 1796 to 1807 the ship was stationed under various commanders in Port Royal , Jamaica. The Abergavenny brought together with her assigned auxiliary ships between November 1798 and July 1799 thirteen ships. Also in the subsequent time for several ships were under its responsibility applied .

In 1807 the Abergavenny was decommissioned and scrapped .

See also

• Earl of Abergavenny (ship) East India Company successor ship to Abergavenny .

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• Register of Letters of marquee against France 1793 - 1815 in the National Archive (here online in a transcript).
• Information on the Earl of Abergavenny documents in the National Archives and the British Library .
• The London Gazette Issue 14027, S.651 - 652 , Issue 15035, S.570 - 572 , Issue 15183 S.943 - 944 , Issue 15277 S.826 - 828 , Issue 15295 S.1083 , reports on the military use of the HMS Abergavenny.
• JJ Colledge; Ben Warlow, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham 2006. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 .