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Caledonia

HMS Caledonia

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateFirst rate
Guns120
WarNapoleonic Wars

120-gun first rate, Lord Gambier's flagship at the Basque Roads.

H.M.S. Caledonia, 120guns, lying in Plymouth Sound.... Hand-coloured.; Medium includes gum arabic. Photo: Ackermann (publishers); Day and Haghe (publishers) (engravers); Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth (engraver); Edmund Fry (publisher); George Foster (publisher); Luscombe, Henry Andrews (artist), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns
  • Lower gun deck: 32 × 32 pdr guns
  • Middle gun deck: 34 × 24 pdr guns
  • Upper gun deck: 34 × 18 pdr guns
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 12 pdr guns, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 2 × 18 pdr carronades
BuilderHM Dockyard, Plymouth
Laid downJanuary 1805
Launched25 June 1808
Length205 ft (62 m) (at the gun deck)
Complement875

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

Career

Launched

25 June 1808

11–24 April 1809

Gambier's flagship

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1875