The ''Canopus''-class

ships of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colum ...

were a class of nine 84-gun two-deck

second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

s of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

. Their design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of the captured French ship ''Franklin'', since commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Canopus'', although this ship herself was not included as a member of the class. The earlier ships were initially ordered as 80-gun

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...

s, but this classification was altered by changes in the rating system in February 1817. This class of ships is sometimes referred to as the ''Formidable'' class.

Ships

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Chatham Dockyard Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham (at its most extensive, in the early 20th century, ...

:Ordered: 8 May 1815 :Launched: 19 May 1825 :Fate: Sold, 1906 * :Builder:

Bombay Dockyard Bombay Dockyard, also known as Naval Dockyard, is an Indian shipbuilding yard at Mumbai. The superintendent of the dockyard is a Naval Officer of the rank Rear Admiral, known as the Admiral Superintendent. Background Shipbuilding was an establ ...

:Ordered: 4 June 1816 :Launched: 10 November 1821 :Fate: Sold, 1929 * :Builder: Bombay Dockyard :Ordered: 22 April 1819 :Launched: 19 January 1824 :Fate: Sold, 1908 * :Builder:

Pembroke Dockyard Pembroke Dockyard, originally called Pater Yard, is a former Royal Navy Dockyard in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales. History It was founded in 1814, although not formally authorized until the Prince Regent signed the necessary Order in Cou ...

:Ordered: 23 January 1817 :Launched: 27 July 1824 :Fate: Sold, 1897 * :Builder: Chatham Dockyard :Ordered: 23 January 1817 :Launched: 21 June 1826 :Fate: Broken up, 1864 * :Builder: Pembroke Dockyard :Ordered: 27 May 1819 :Launched: 25 July 1827 :Fate: Burnt, 1884 * :Builder: Bombay Dockyard :Ordered: 26 January 1825 :Launched: 17 February 1828 :Fate: Burnt, 1864 * :Builder:

Woolwich Dockyard Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich in north-west Kent, where many ships were built from the early 1 ...

:Ordered: 23 January 1817 :Launched: 22 September 1831 :Fate: Sold, 1901 * :Builder: Chatham Dockyard :Ordered: 23 July 1817 :Launched: 18 December 1832 :Fate: Broken up, 1866

References

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