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HMS Talavera (1818)
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Talavera
Ordered: 15 February 1814
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down: July 1814
Launched: 15 October 1818
Fate: Burnt, 1840
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: Repulse-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1718 bm
Length: 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

74 guns:

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Talavera was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 October 1818 at Woolwich Dockyard.[1] She was named for the British/Spanish victory at the Battle of Talavera.

She was destroyed by fire in 1840.[1]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p189.

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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