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| Name | Powerful (1826) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | ||
| Launched | 21 June 1826 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2296 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 84 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
| Class | Canopus | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1860 target | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 1 January 1839 - 31 May 1841 | Commanded by Commodore Charles Napier, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, where, as Commodore, second in command to Admiral Sir Robert Stopford) | ||
| 18 December 1840 - 22 September 1841 | Commanded by Captain George Mansel, Mediterranean | ||
| 23 September 1841 - 6 January 1842 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Michael Seymour, Mediterranean | ||
| (January 1843) | Out of commission at Portsmouth | ||
| 25 January 1848 - 8 March 1851 | Commanded by Captain Richard Saunders Dundas, Mediterranean | ||
| 29 May 1854 - 2 July 1854 | Commanded by Captain George Mansel, particular service | ||
| 12 September 1854 - 1 October 1856 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Lecke Massie, particular service | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 29 December 1841 | PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday. The Thalia, 42, Captain C. Hope, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the eastward. She has recently come from Leith, where she has been very successful in procuring volunteers to join her. The Powerful, 84, Captain M. Seymour, will come into the harbour this day, and will be paid off as soon as she is unrigged. She was to have come in yesterday, but was prevented by the thick fog which was prevailing at the time the tide would admit of her entering the harbour. Vice-Admiral Sir J.A. Ommanney has struck his flag. The Numa transport, with the detachments of the Royal Artillery and 59th Regiment on board, bound to the West Indies, is still at Spithead, but will sail to-day if the wind is in any way favourable. The detachment of the Royal Artillery has already been upwards of a month on board of her. The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, bent her sails yesterday, and is now all ataunt. She will proceed on Wednesday or Thursday to Spithead. The whole of the ships now fitting out here for foreign service, consisting of the Warspite, 50, Vindictive, 50, Rapid, 10, and Queen, 110, will go out of harbour this week. Ships at Spithead:— Powerful, 84, Thalia, 42, Hazard, 18, Snake, 16, and Numa transport. Ships in harbour.— St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Warspite, Vindictive, Rapid, Royal George yacht, Excellent and Adventure naval transport. | ||
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