&sq=&lang=&file=File:%27Redoubtable%27_(1815);_%27Chatham%27_(1812)_RMG_J3333.png) Chatham
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Chatham |
| Ordered | 1810 |
| Builder | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down | June 1810 |
| Launched | 14 February 1812 |
| Completed | By 25 April 1812 |
| Fate | Sold on 10 September 1817 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | 74-gun third-rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,860 25⁄94 bm |
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| Beam | 48 ft 10 in (14.9 m) |
| Depth of hold | 21 ft 6.5 in (6.6 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 590 |
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HMS Chatham was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had been planned as Royal-Hollandais for the French Navy, but was captured while under construction during the Walcheren Campaign.
Royal-Hollandais had been planned as one of the smaller variants of the Téméraire-class ships of the line, and was under construction at Flushing when the town fell in 1809 to a British expeditionary force. The frames were discovered on the slipway, and were packaged up and shipped back to London, where the Admiralty authorised her completion for the Royal Navy. She was duly launched in 1812, and spent a relatively short career in British waters, particularly the North Sea, including some time as a flagship. Poor quality timber used in her construction curtailed her career, and she was reduced to a hulk towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, was laid up, and finally sold in 1817, five years after having been launched.