HMS ''Talbot'' was a 28-gun

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built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

Description

''Talbot'' had a length at the

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of and at the keel. She had a beam of , a draught of and a depth of hold of . The ship's tonnage was 500 tons

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.Winfield, p. 795 The ''Atholl'' class was armed with twenty 32-pounder

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s on her

, six 32-pounder carronades on her

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and a pair of 9-pounder cannon in the forecastle. The ships had a crew of 175 officers and ratings.Winfield & Lyon, p. 112

Construction and career

''Talbot'', the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge, p. 343 was ordered on 30 April 1818, laid down in March 1821 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 9 October 1824. She was completed on 21 December 1824 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on 21 September of that year. She was a participant at the

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on 20 October 1827. She took part in Inglefield's 1854 Arctic expedition as a depot ship. As a

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off Beckton she overlooked the disastrous sinking of SS ''Princess Alice'', a collision on the Thames on 14 September 1878.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Talbot (1824) 1824 ships Ships built in Pembroke Dock