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Impregnable

HMS Impregnable

Damaged

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateSecond rate
Guns98 guns
WarBombardment of Algiers

Second rate, flagship of Rear-Admiral David Milne at Algiers. Anchored too far out, she took the heaviest losses in the fleet, with 50 killed and 160 wounded.

H.M.S. Impregnable In a Gale of Wind of the Island of Sardinia Octbr 29 1841 Print H.M.S. Impregnable In a Gale of Wind of the Island of Sardinia Octbr 29 1841 Photo: Giovanni Schranz (artist and engraver), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

98 guns

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Middle gundeck: 30 × 18 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 30 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 12 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid downFebruary 1802
Launched1 August 1810
Length197 ft (60 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

1 August 1810

27 August 1816

Rear-Admiral David Milne

Fate

Damaged

Sold, 1906