HMS ''Fame'' was a 74-gun
third rate ship 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 colu ...
of the
Royal Navy, built at
Deptford Dockyard.
She was constructed on the same building slip as was , her keel having been ordered to be laid down on it immediately after the other ship's launch on 26 March 1800.
[Phillips, Michael]
''Fame'' (74) (1805)
Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 17 May 2009. The first elements of her keel were finally laid down on 22 January 1802, and ''Fame'' was launched on 8 October 1805.
Service
In November 1808, whilst under the command of Captain
Bennet, ''Fame'' joined a squadron lying off
Rosas, where Captain
Lord Cochrane was assisting the
Spanish in the defence of Castell de la Trinitat against the invading
French
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army. Boats from ''Fame'' helped evacuate Cochrane's garrison forces after the fort's surrender on 5 December.
On March 4, 1811, Argentine lawyer and journlist
Mariano Moreno died on this ship while travelling on a diplomatic mission to England, his body was thrown into the water wrapped in a Unión Jack flag.
Fate
''Fame'' was laid up
in ordinary at
Chatham in 1815. She was broken up in 1817.
Notes
References
*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Fame-class ships of the line
1805 ships
Ships built in Deptford
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