HMS Pitt (1816)
Plan drawing of Pitt | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Pitt |
| Ordered | 17 April 1807 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down | May 1813 |
| Launched | 13 April 1816 |
| Commissioned | Never commissioned |
| Reclassified |
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| Fate | Broken up, 17 March 1877 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Vengeur-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,751 2⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 47 ft 8 in (14.5 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft 3 in (5.6 m) (light) |
| Depth of hold | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 590 |
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HMS Pitt was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. Left incomplete after her launching in 1816, she was finally completed in 183, but was never commissioned.
and launched on 13 April 1816 at Portsmouth Dockyard.[1]
She never served any military function.[2]
Pitt was sold for use as a "coal depot" in 1860, sitting In Portsmouth Docks but purely to hold coal brought in by sea from the north to serve the south of England. She was broken up in 1877.
Notes
- ^ Lavery, p. 189
- ^ "British Third Rate ship of the line 'Pitt' (1816)".
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0.
- Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2nd, revised ed.). Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.