HMS Cumberland (1842)

H.M.S. Cumberland, c.1852
History
UK
Name: HMS Cumberland
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: April 1836
Launched: 21 October 1842
Fate: Burned 17 February 1889
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2214 bm
Length: 180 ft (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 54 ft 3 in (16.54 m)
Depth of hold: 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 70 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Cumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 October 1842 at Chatham Dockyard.[1] She carried a crew of 620 men.

Cumberland recommissioned as a flagship under Captain George Henry Seymour as the flagship of his father, Vice-Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour. She served on the North America and West Indies Station.[2] In March 1854 she sailed to the Baltic Sea as the Crimean War with Russia was imminent. Cumberland was involved in the Battle of Bomarsund, an Anglo-French attack on Bomarsund in the Grand Duchy of Finland in August 1854.[3]

Cumberland was converted to serve as a training ship in 1870. She was destroyed by fire on the River Clyde in Scotland on 17 February 1889.[1][4]

Monument to the 6 crew of HMS Cumberland that died at Halifax, Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Notes

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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