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Vengeur-class ship of the line
For other ships with the same name, see
HMS Benbow .
Study of HMS Benbow in Portsmouth Harbour, 1826
History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Benbow
Ordered 11 June 1808
Builder Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down July 1808
Launched 3 February 1813
Fate Broken up, 1895
Notes Coal hulk from August 1859
General characteristics
[1]
Class and type
Vengeur -class
ship of the line
Tons burthen 1773
bm
Length 176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion Sails
Sail plan
Full-rigged ship
Armament
74 guns:
Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder
carronades
Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades
Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
HMS Benbow was a 74-gun
third rate
ship of the line of the
Royal Navy , built by Brent of
Rotherhithe and launched on 3 February 1813.
[1]
Tortosa , 23rd September 1840, attack by the boats of HMS Benbow , Carysfort and Zebra , under Captain J.F. Ross, R.N.
Benbow is in this picture of the
Battle of St. Jean d'Acre , 3 November 1840
In 1840 Benbow saw action in the
bombardment of the city of Acre under the command of
Admiral Robert Stopford . At the height of the battle either Benbow or the naval steamer
HMS Gorgon fired the shell that destroyed Acre's powder magazine, causing an explosion that greatly weakened the city's defences.
[2]
Benbow was used for harbour service from February 1848 until August 1859, when she was converted to be used as a coal hulk. In 1892, after 79 years of service, she was sold out of the Navy, and was broken up in 1895 at Castle,
Woolwich .
[1]
References
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a
b
c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
^ Kahanov 2014, p.152.
Bibliography
Colledge, J. J. ; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8 .
Kahanov, Yaacov; Stern, Eliezer; Cvikel, Deborah; Me-Bar, Yoav (2014), "Between Shoal and Wall: The naval bombardment of Akko, 1840", The Mariner's Mirror , 100 (2): 147–167,
doi :
10.1080/00253359.2014.901699 ,
S2CID
110466181
Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press.
ISBN
0-85177-252-8 .