HMS_Devonshire_(1812)

HMS <i>Devonshire</i> (1812)

HMS Devonshire (1812)

Vengeur-class ship of the line

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Devonshire.

HMS Devonshire was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 September 1812 at Deptford.[1]

The Devonshire prison-ship, at Sheerness in 1854, holding Russian prisoners of war

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She was placed on harbour service in 1849, and was broken up in 1869.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.

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.


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