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Britannia

HMS Britannia

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
WarCrimean War
Main guns32 × 32-pounder guns

120-gun first rate and Vice Admiral James Dundas's flagship in the Black Sea. From 1859 the Royal Navy's first cadet training ship, the original HMS Britannia of the naval college.

HMS Britannia and HMS Malelina Entering Milos Harbour, 2nd January 1834 by John H. Wilson, pencil and watercolor, 9 X 13 in. Note: Malelina is most likely to be HMS Malabar (1818). See Talk page Photo: John H. Wilson (British, 1774-1855), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

120 guns

  • Lower gundeck: 32 × 32 pdr guns
  • Middle gundeck: 34 × 24 pdr guns
  • Upper gundeck: 34 × 24 pdr Congreve guns
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 12 pdr guns, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
BuilderHM Dockyard, Devonport
Laid downDecember 1813
Launched20 October 1820
Commissioned4 October 1823
Length205 ft (62.5 m) (gundeck)
Complement900 (wartime)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

20 October 1820

17 October 1854

Dundas's flagship

Fate

Survived

Broken up by 20 November 1869