HMS Formidable (1825)


HMS Formidable was an 84-gun second rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Formidable.

Formidable at Sheerness in December 1850
History
UK
Name: HMS Formidable
Ordered: 8 May 1815
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: October 1819
Launched: 19 May 1825
Fate: Sold, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2289 bm
Length: 193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 52 ft 4 1⁄2 in (16.0 m) (16 m)
Depth of hold: 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 84 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades

On 29 November 1842, Formidable ran aground off the mouth of the Llobregat on the coast of Spain.[2] She was refloated on 2 December 1842 with the aid of two French steamships.[3]

In 1869 Formidable became a training ship, at the National Nautical School in Portishead,[4] and she was sold out of the navy in 1906.[1]

Formidable careened in Malta Dockyard, 31 January 1843

Archives

Records of the National Nautical School are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 38087) (online catalogue).

Notes
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p190.
  2. "Spain". The Times (18158). London. 5 December 1842. col D, p. 6.
  3. "Ship News". The Times (18163). London. 10 December 1842. col B, p. 7.
  4. "BTS Formidable and the National Nautical School". Fedden Village. Archived from the original on 30 August 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2009.

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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