HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)

Detail of Robert Salmon's The British Fleet Forming a Line off Algiers
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Queen Charlotte
Ordered	9 July 1801
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	October 1805
Launched	17 July 1810
Commissioned	January 1813
Fate	Sold, 12 January 1892
General characteristics
Class and type	104-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	2289 bm
Length	190 ft 0+1⁄2 in (57.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam	52 ft 5+3⁄4 in (16.0 m)
Depth of hold	22 ft 4 in (6.8 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 30 × 32-pounder guns Middle gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 12-pounder guns QD: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford. She replaced the first Queen Charlotte sunk in 1800.

Career

A Black sailor from Grenada named William Brown was discharged from Queen Charlotte in 1815 for being a woman.

She was Lord Exmouth's flagship during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816.

On 17 September 1817, Linnet, a tender to Queen Charlotte, seized a smuggled cargo of tobacco. The officers and crew of Queen Charlotte shared in the prize money.

On 17 December 1823, Queen Charlotte was driven into the British ship Brothers at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Brothers suffered severe damage in the collision.

Fate

Queen Charlotte was converted to serve as a training ship in 1859 and renamed HMS Excellent. She was eventually sold out of the service to be broken up in 1892.