HMS Belleisle (1819)

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

HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.^[1]

The hospital ship Belleisle taking provisions during the Crimean War
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Belleisle
Ordered	17 November 1812
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	February 1816
Launched	26 April 1819
Fate	Broken up, 1872
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Repulse-class ship of the line, later a hospital ship
Tons burthen	1709 bm
Length	174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 14 × 9-pounders Forecastle: 4 × 9-pounders

Plans of Belleisle

Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841 and sailed for China in Dec. 1841 for the First Opium War. She stayed in China until the Treaty of Nanking was signed in 1842.^[2] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June.^[3]

Belleisle was subsequently used as a hospital ship at Chatham. In June 1866, she was lent by the Admiralty to the Seamen's Hospital Society for use as a hospital ship in London for seamen suffering from cholera. Whilst being towed up the River Thames by the tug Medusa, she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide.^[4] Belleisle was broken up in 1872.^[1]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
2. Carradice, Phil (15 August 2013). The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 38. ISBN 9781445613109 – via Google Books.
3. "Devon". The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser. No. 2771. Truro. 1 August 1856. p. 5.
4. "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 25518. London. 7 June 1866. col E-F, p. 12.

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.

External links

• Media related to HMS Belleisle (1819) at Wikimedia Commons