HMS Caledonia (1808)

126 guns

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

The HMS Caledonia was a ship of the line first class of the Royal Navy with 122 cannons.

History

As one of nine ships named after her Caledonia class HMS Caledonia was given on 19 January 1797 in order. In January 1805, the keel-laying ceremony was held on 25 June 1808, the launching. On 12 February 1814 was involved along with the HMS Boyne in a heavy firefight against the French battleship Romulus, which sailed close to the coast, however, to avoid being surrounded. The Romulus eventually managed to escape to Toulon.

In 1831 she was part of the Experimental Squadron of the Channel Fleet under Sir Edward Codrington. On September 12 this year, she participated in an experiment in the framework of which it was towed from the frigate HMS Galatea using only hand rowing.

In 1856 it was converted into a hospital ship, renamed Dreadnought and was the second ship of the Seamen's Hospital Society in Greenwich, where she remained until 1870. In 1871 it was briefly brought back into service to accommodate patients who recovered from the smallpox epidemic this year. She was scrapped in 1875.