HMS Cumberland (1842)
H.M.S. Cumberland, c.1852 | |
History | |
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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: |
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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]
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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