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Hogue

HMS Hogue

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
WarCrimean War
Main guns28 × 32-pounder guns

Old 74-gun ship converted to a screw blockship. Bombarded Bomarsund in 1854.

HMS Hogue, by William Clark Medium oil on canvas Measurements H 49 x W 74.5 cm Accession number T.1960.5 Photo: William Clark, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore
  • Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdr guns
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdr guns, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downApril 1808
Launched3 October 1811
CommissionedDecember 1811
Length176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck)
Complement590

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

Career

Launched

3 October 1811

8–16 August 1854

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1865