Vengeur-class ship of the line
Berwick
History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Berwick
Ordered 1 July 1807
Builder Perry, Blackwall
Laid down October 1807
Launched 11 September 1809
Fate Broken up, 1821
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Vengeur -class ship of the line
Tons burthen 1761 (bm )
Length 176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion Sails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
QD : 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
Fc : 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder guns carronades
HMS Berwick was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 11 September 1809 at Blackwall .[1]
Career
At the action of 24 March 1811 , Berwick under Captain James Macnamara led the pursuit and destruction of the French frigate Amazone near the Phare de Gatteville lighthouse, Normandy . One sailor was killed in the engagement.[2]
Before the fall of Genoa in April 1814, the boats of Berwick and Rainbow , together with two Sicilian gunboats, attacked French posts near the pass of Rona on 8 and 10 April to assist the British army in its advance. The British drove off the French defenders, who left behind two 24-pounder guns and two mortars. The British lost two men killed and five wounded.[3]
Fate
Berwick was broken up in 1821.[1]
Notes
References
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 .