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Powerful

HMS Powerful

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74 guns
WarFrench Revolutionary Wars

74-gun ship, at Camperdown.

Plan showing the body plan with sternboard decoration and name on the counter, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Berwick (1775), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan was later approved for Bombay Castle (1782), Pow Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns
BuilderPerry, Blackwall Yard
Laid downApril 1781
Launched3 April 1783
Commissioned22 April 1783
Length168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

3 April 1783

11 October 1797

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1812