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History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name HMS Berwick
Ordered 1 July 1807
Builder Perry, Blackwall
Laid down October 1807
Launched 11 September 1809
Fate Broken up, 1821
General characteristics
Class and type Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen 1761 (bm)
Length 176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion Sails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder guns carronades

HMS Berwick was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 September 1809 at Blackwall.

Career

At the action of 24 March 1811, Berwick under Captain James Macnamara led the pursuit and destruction of the French frigate Amazone near the Phare de Gatteville lighthouse, Normandy. One sailor was killed in the engagement.

Before the fall of Genoa in April 1814, the boats of Berwick and Rainbow, together with two Sicilian gunboats, attacked French posts near the pass of Rona on 8 and 10 April to assist the British army in its advance. The British drove off the French defenders, who left behind two 24-pounder guns and two mortars. The British lost two men killed and five wounded.

Fate

Berwick was broken up in 1821.

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