HMS Vigo (1810)
Vigo | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Vigo |
| Ordered | 20 October 1806 |
| Builder | Ross, Rochester |
| Laid down | April 1807 |
| Launched | 21 February 1810 |
| Commissioned | January 1811 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1865 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Vengeur-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,786 71⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 176 ft 9 in (53.9 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 40 ft (12.2 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) (light) |
| Depth of hold | 20 ft 11 in (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 590 |
| Armament |
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HMS Vigo was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1810, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars. launched on 21 February 1810 at Rochester.
She became a receiving ship in 1827, and was broken up in 1865.[1]
HMS Vigo is one of the few but significant number of ships to have been built by a shipyard owned by a woman. A Mrs Mary Ross was the widow of the former owner of Acorn Warf at Rochester. She was evidently successful in the business and would go on to build a further 8 vessels for the Royal Navy, including one other 74-gun ship, HMS Stirling Castle.[2]
Notes
- ^ Lavery, p. 188
- ^ Doe, Helen (2006). "Challenging Images: Mrs Mary Ross of Rochester, nineteenth-century businesswoman and warship builder". Journal for Maritime Research. 8 (1): 46–60. doi:10.1080/21533369.2006.9668355.
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.