HMS Renown (1798)
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| Construction and service time | |
| Shipyard | Dudman, Deptford |
| Keel laying | November 1796 |
| Launch | May 2, 1798 |
| fate | Renamed HMS Royal Oak in 1814 ;
1814–1835 port service; Wrecked May 1835 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement | 1929.5 ts |
| length | 55 m (gun deck) |
| width | 14.8 m |
| Draft | 6.6 m |
| Armament | 28 × 32 pounder (gun deck),
30 × 18 pounders (upper gun deck) , 12 × 9 pounders ( quarter deck), 4 × 9 pounders (forecastle deck) |
| drive | Sails, three-masted frigate ( rigging ) |
HMS Renown was a 74-cannon battleship third rank of the America class of the Royal Navy . It was originally intended to Royal Oak hot, but was on 15 February 1796 before its keel was laid in Renown renamed.
The ship was launched on May 2, 1798 at the Dudman shipyard in Deptford (now part of London). After completion, it served as the flagship of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren in 1800 and 1801 , first in the English Channel , then also during the failed attack on Cádiz in 1801, and then, with reduced armament, in the Mediterranean . During this time, the future Admiral Charles John Napier served as a midshipman on the Renown . The ship was overhauled in Plymouth in 1805 , then again provided blockade service until 1807 off the north and west coast of France and then in the Mediterranean.
In 1811 the Renown in Plymouth was decommissioned and from 1814, renamed Royal Oak , used as the Hulk . The hull was scrapped in May 1835.
See also
- HMS Renown for other ships of the same name
Individual evidence
- ↑ " en flûte ", d. H. with partially unequipped gun ports , like a flute with its open tone holes .
literature
- Brian Lavery: The Ship of the Line. Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet, 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press, London 2003, ISBN 0-85177-252-8 , p. 185.