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Valiant

HMS Valiant

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74
WarNapoleonic Wars

74-gun ship, at the Basque Roads, where she helped take Ville de Varsovie and Aquilon.

"The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri, at Gibralter [sic], Aug. 26th, 1843" - Chromolithograph showing the crew of H.M.S. Malabar (foreground, left) watching as USS Missouri explodes and burns in the distance from accidental fire, after completing first trans-Atlantic voyage of Photo: Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton / Edward Duncan / George Pechell Mends / Adam Cuerden, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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
BuilderPerry, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard
Laid downApril 1805
Launched24 January 1807
CommissionedMarch 1807
Length174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Complement590

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

Career

Launched

24 January 1807

11–24 April 1809

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1823