Name | Benbow (1813) | Explanation |
Type | Third rate |
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Launched | 3 February 1813 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Sail |
Builders measure | 1773 tons |
Displacement | |
Guns | 72 |
Fate | 1895 |
Class | Armada |
Ships book | |
Note | 1848 h.s.1859 c.h. |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
9 April 1839 - May 1842 | Commanded by Captain Houston Stewart, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) |
(January 1843) | Out of commission at Sherness |
1 September 1854 | Commanded by Lieutenant Henry Bryan Everest, prison ship for Russian prisoners of war, Sheerness |
1859 | Coal hulk, Sheerness |