HMS ''Barham'' was a 74-gun

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ship of the line of the

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named after Admiral

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, PC (14 October 172617 June 1813) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the Seven Years' War. Middleton was given command of a guardship at the Nore, a Roy ...

, launched on 8 July 1811 at

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. In 1826 ''Barham'' was reduced to a 50-gun ship. On 29 April 1829 she suffered severe damage when she ran aground off Bonaire; she was refloated on 30 April 1829 after her crew threw 37 cannon overboard. She was broken up in 1839.

Notable crew

* Midshipman Francis Edward Bigge, a pioneer in

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, Australia * Commander

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* Commander

Baldwin Wake Walker Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, (6 January 1802 – 12 February 1876) was Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861. and was responsible for the Royal Navy's warship construction programme during the 1850s naval arms race and at th ...

Notes

References

*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. . *Douvry, Olivier (2012) ''Shipwrecks of Bonaire, the warship HMS Barham wasn’t wrecked at Red Slave.'', GlobeDivers.org.

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