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'Black Prince' (1816) RMG J2758.jpg
Black Prince, a plan dated 1815
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History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name HMS Black Prince
Ordered 14 August 1810
Builder Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down July 1814
Launched 30 March 1816
Fate Broken up, 1855
General characteristics
Class and type Black Prince-class ship of the line
Tons burthen 1751 bm
Length
  • 176 ft 1 in (53.67 m) (gundeck)
  • 144 ft 10.375 in (44.15473 m) (keel)
Beam 47 ft 8 in (14.53 m)
Depth of hold 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion Sails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
'Black Prince' (1816); 'Melville' (1817); 'Hawke' (1820); 'Wellesley' (1815) RMG J2761
A Black Prince plan dated 1810, based on the design of the captured (1807) Danish 74-gun Christian VII.

HMS Black Prince was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard.

In 1848 Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855.

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