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Leviathan

HMS Leviathan

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74 guns
WarsFrench Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars

74-gun ship, at the Glorious First of June and Trafalgar.

Text: This View is taken from the Banks of the River Medway near Upnor Castle. Visual Material information: Title: "THE ROYAL DOCK YARD AT CHATHAM " Author(s): Dodd, Robert British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.16.42.d. Publisher: Publish'd Octr 29th 1789 by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shake Photo: Robert Dodd / John & Josiah Boydell, No restrictions · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

74 guns

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid downMay 1782
Launched9 October 1790
Length172 ft 3 in (52.50 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

9 October 1790

28 May – 1 June 1794 · French Revolutionary Wars

21 October 1805 · Napoleonic Wars

23 October – 1 November 1809 · Napoleonic Wars

Fate

Survived

Sold and broken up, 1848