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HMS America (1810)

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

History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
NameHMS America
Ordered22 August 1807
BuilderPerry, Blackwall Yard
Launched21 April 1810
FateBroken up, 1867
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass-
Tons burthen1758 bm
Length176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold21 ft (6.4 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull 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

HMS America was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1810 at Blackwall Yard.[1]

In 1827 America was cut down into a fourth rate. During the rising tensions with the United States of America over the Oregon boundary dispute, HMS America was dispatched to the Pacific Northwest in 1845.[2] Leaving the Straits of Juan de Fuca on 1 October, the vessel sailed for the Kingdom of Hawaii and later the Pacific Station at Valparaíso, in Chile. While at the Pacific Station, Captain John Gordon ordered the valuable cargo of HMS Daphne be moved to his ship and departed to deliver it to the United Kingdom. For removing the second most powerful British vessel on the Pacific coast of the Americas during the Oregon crisis, Gordon was court-martialed and reprimanded.[2]

The America was broken up in 1867.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 188.
  2. ^ a b Longstaff, F. V. and W. K. Lamb. The Royal Navy on the Northwest Coast, 1813-1850. Part 1. The British Columbia Historical Quarterly 9, No. 1 (1945), pp. 1-24.

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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