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Repulse

HMS Repulse

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74 guns
WarNapoleonic Wars

74-gun ship, at Calder's action, the capture of Marengo in 1806 and in the Dardanelles in 1807.

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns
  • Upper deck: 28 × 18 pdr guns
  • Quarterdeck: 2 × 18 pdr guns + 12 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 18 pdr guns + 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downSeptember 1800
Launched22 July 1803
CommissionedJuly 1803
Length174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Complement590

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

Career

Launched

22 July 1803

13 March 1806

19 February – 3 March 1807

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1820