HMS Black Prince (1816)

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.[1]

History
United 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 [1]
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

In 1848 Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855.[1][2]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol.1, p. 189.
2. Phillips, Michael. Black Prince (74) (1816). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 4 May 2009.

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.
• Winfield, Rif (2008) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.