HMS Britannia (1820)

126 guns

• 32 x 32- pounder
• 34 x 24 -pounder
• 34 x 18- pounder
• 8 x 12 -pounder
• 12 x 32- pounder carronades
• 6 x 18- pounder carronades

HMS Britannia was a ship of the line first class of the Royal Navy with 126 cannons.

History

As one of nine ships of the Caledonia class HMS Britannia was given on 6 November 1812 in order. In December 1813, the keel-laying ceremony took place on 20 October 1820 Launched. After she was put into service in 1823, she knew in the years 1830 to 1831 and 1841 to serve in the Mediterranean area. She was decommissioned in 1843, before it was used during the Crimean War as the flagship of Admiral Sir James Deans Dundas, who commanded the British fleet in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from 1851 to 1854. At the beginning of 1855 they returned to England and became a hospital ship in Portsmouth, then a cadet training ship in 1859. In 1862, she was ordered to Portland in 1863 to Dartmouth.

In 1869 it was finally sold for scrapping. Your place in Dartmouth was occupied by the HMS Prince of Wales, which was eventually renamed in Britannia.

Prominent naval officers on board these two ships Britannia

• John Fisher
• Percy Scott
• John Jellicoe
• Roger Keyes
• William Boyle
• Augustus agar
• King George V.