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Class overview |
Name | Pompée |
Operators |
Royal Navy |
Preceded by |
Ajax class |
Succeeded by |
America class |
In service | 19 March 1798 - 1865 |
Completed | 2 |
General characteristics |
Type |
Ship of the line |
Length |
- 182 ft 2 in (55.52 m) (gundeck)
- 149 ft 9 in (45.64 m) (keel)
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Beam | 49 ft (15 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Armament |
- 74 guns:
- Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 30 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs
- Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
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Plan of the Pompée-class ship of the line
The Pompée-class
ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun
third rates.
[1] They were built for the
Royal Navy to the lines of the French ship
Pompée, a
Téméraire-class ship of the line which had been captured by Britain in 1793.
- Builder: Pitcher,
Northfleet
- Ordered: 10 June 1795
- Launched: 19 March 1798
- Fate: Broken up, 1826
- Builder: Cleverley,
Gravesend
- Ordered: 10 June 1795
- Launched: 16 April 1798
- Fate: Sold out of the service, 1865
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^ Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press.
ISBN
0-85177-252-8.