Dimensions
DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentBWAS-1793Length of Gundeck181' 11"Imperial Feet55.1691 Length of Keel150' 0 ½"Imperial Feet45.7327 Breadth49' 2"Imperial Feet14.9408 Depth in Hold21' 1"Imperial Feet6.4262 Burthen1,954 34⁄94Imperial Feet0.0092 Armament
13.4.1805Broadside Weight = 1099 Imperial Pound ( 498.3965 kg)BWAS-1793 | Lower Gun Deck | 28 British 32-PounderUpper Gun Deck | 30 British 24-PounderQuarterdeck | 10 British 32-Pound CarronadeQuarterdeck | 6 British 12-PounderForecastle | 2 British 32-Pound CarronadeForecastle | 2 British 9-PounderRoundhouse | 6 British 18-Pound CarronadeCrew Complement
Date# of MenNotesSource
27.10.1796590Design Complement
Service History
DateEventSource4.1805CommissionedBWAS-179323.6.1805Completed at Chatham Dockyard - Chatham
at a cost of £58653.0.0dBWAS-179321.10.1805Battle of Trafalgar12.1805Began refitting at Chatham Dockyard - Chatham
BWAS-17932.1806Completed refitting at Chatham Dockyard - Chatham
at a cost of £10687.0.0dBWAS-179316.7.1806Boat attack on shipping in the GirondeBWAS-179325.9.1806Action off Rochefort26.2.1807Sailed for the MediterraneanBWAS-17931809Walcheren expeditionBWAS-179310.6.1810Sailed with the East Indies ConvoyBWAS-179317.10.1810Took the Privateer Le Vengeur (16)
off Cherbourg13.11.1810Actions at La Hougue4.1811Began refitting at Portsmouth - Hampshire
BWAS-17936.1811Completed refitting at Portsmouth - Hampshire
at a cost of £15110.0.0dBWAS-179318.12.1812Sailed for the MediterraneanBWAS-17938.11.1813On the 8th of November, at 8 h. 30 m. p.m., the boats of the 74-gun ship Revenge, Captain Sir John Gore, under the orders of Lieutenant William Richards, assisted by Lieutenant Thomas Blakiston, Captain of marines John Spurin, and master's mates and midshipmen Thomas Quelch, William Rolfe, Henry Fisher, Benjamin Mainwaring, John Harwood, Valentine Munbee, George Fraser, Robert Maxwell, Charles M. D. Buchanan, and John P. Davey, were sent into the harbour of Palamos, to endeavour to cut out a French felucca privateer. At 11 p.m. Lieutenant Richards and his party boarded and carried the privateer, without having a man hurt, and by 1 a.m. on the 9th had brought her alongside the Revenge.BWAS-17938.1814Paid off into ordinary at Chatham2.1818Began large repair at Chatham - Kent
BWAS-17938.1823Relaunched with a circular sternBWAS-17938.1823Completed large repair at Chatham - Kent
at a cost of £76919.0.0dBWAS-17936.1827Began fitting at Portsmouth - Hampshire
BWAS-17931.1828Completed fitting at Portsmouth - Hampshire
at a cost of £12142.0.0dBWAS-179311.1830Began fitting at Plymouth - Devon
BWAS-17935.1831Completed fitting at Plymouth - Devon
at a cost of £18617.0.0dBWAS-17931.1838Began fitting at Portsmouth - Hampshire
BWAS-17931839Re-rated at 76 gunsBWAS-17931839Refitted as a 76 gun Third Rate Ship of the Line
8.1839Completed fitting at Portsmouth - Hampshire
at a cost of £17178.0.0dBWAS-17931840RecommissionedBWAS-17933.11.1840Bombardment of Acre1842Paid off at SheernessBWAS-17934.1849Surveyed at SheernessBWAS-179310.1849Broken up at SheernessBWAS-1793