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HMS Northumberland (1798)
HMS Northumberland battle
Destruction of the French Frigates Arianne & Andromaque 22nd May 1812.
The image shows the last stages of the Action of 22 may 1812. From left to right: Mameluck, Ariane, Andromaque and Northumberland.
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Northumberland
Ordered: 10 June 1795
Builder: Barnard, Deptford
Laid down: October 1795
Launched: 2 February 1798
Honours and
awards:


Participated in Battle of San Domingo

Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Fate: Broken up, 1850
Notes: Hulked, February 1827
General characteristics [2]
Class & type: America class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1907 bm
Length: 182 ft (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 48 ft 7 12 in (14.821 m)
Depth of hold: 21 ft 7 in (6.58 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:


Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder pdrs
Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder
QD: 12 × 9-pounder

Fc: 4 × 9-pounder

HMS Northumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the yards of Barnard, Deptford and launched on 2 February 1798.[2] Northumberland, Alexander, Penelope, Bonne Citoyenne, and the brig Vincejo shared in the proceeds of the French polacca Vengeance, captured entering Valetta, Malta on 6 April.[3]

Because Northumberland served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 1] Northumberland participated in the Battle of San Domingo, where she was damaged, and suffered 21 killed and 74 wounded, the highest casualties of any British ship in the battle.[citation needed]

On 22 November 1810, Northumberland, while in the company of HMS Armada, a 74-gun third rate, captured the 14-gun French privateer ketch La Glaneuse. She received a measure of fame when she transported Napoleon I into captivity on the Island of Saint Helena. Napoleon had surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon, on 15 July 1815 and was then transported to Plymouth.[5] Napoleon was transferred from the Bellerophon to the Northumberland for his final voyage to St. Helena because concerns were expressed about the suitability of the ageing ship. HMS Northumberland was therefore selected instead.[citation needed]

She was converted to a hulk in February 1827, and returned to Deptford to be broken up in 1850.[2]

Notes and citations[]

Notes
  1. A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[4]
Citations
  1. "No. 21077". 15 March 1850. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21077/page/ 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p185.
  3. "No. 15717". 7 July 1804. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/15717/page/ 
  4. "No. 17915". 3 April 1823. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/17915/page/ 
  5. Tracy, N, Who's Who in Nelson's Navy: 200 Heroes, Chatham, 2006, p. 237

References[]

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