HMS Lancaster (1797)

Royal Naval plan of Lancaster
History
Great Britain
Name	Pigot
Builder	Randall and Brent, Rotherhithe
Launched	29 January 1797
Renamed	HMS Lancaster
Fate	Sold, 1832
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	64-gun third-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1430, or 1416[2] (bm)
Length	173 ft 6 in (52.88 m) (gundeck)
Beam	43 ft 3 in (13.18 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	64 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Lancaster was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 January 1797 at Rotherhithe. She was designed and built as the East Indiaman Pigot for the British East India Company, but the Navy purchased her on the stocks because of a shortage of naval vessels to prosecute the French Revolutionary Wars.