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Cornwallis

HMS Cornwallis

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
WarsFirst Opium War, Crimean War
Main guns74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns

74-gun third rate built at Bombay and Admiral Parker's flagship in 1842. The Treaty of Nanking was signed aboard her on 29 August 1842. Converted to screw propulsion and served in the Baltic in 1855; later a jetty at Sheerness, she was broken up in 1957.

H.M.S. Cornwallis 72 Guns Going out of Plymouth Harbour Hand-coloured. H.M.S. Cornwallis 72 Guns Going out of Plymouth Harbour Photo: Ackermann [publishers]; Brierly, Oswald Walters, Sir [artist]; Day & Son [printers]; Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth [engraver], Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns
  • Upper deck: 28 × 18 pdr guns
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdr guns + 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdr guns + 2 × 32 pdr carronades
BuilderJamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, Bombay Dockyard
Laid down1812
Launched12 May 1813
CommissionedDecember 1814
Length177 ft 5 in (54.1 m) (gundeck)
Complement590

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

Career

Launched

12 May 1813

16 June 1842 · First Opium War

Admiral Parker's flagship

9–11 August 1855 · Crimean War

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1957