HMS Glatton (1795)

For other ships with the same name, see Glatton (EIC ship) and HMS Glatton.

On the deck of HMS Glatton
Captain Henry Trollope with the mortally wounded Marine Captain Henry Ludlow Strangeways on the deck of HMS Glatton
History
British East India Company
NameGlatton
OwnerRichard Neave[1]
BuilderWells & Co. of Blackwell
Launched29 November 1792
FateSold to the Royal Navy in 1795
Great Britain
NameHMS Glatton
Acquired1795, from the EIC
CommissionedApril 1795
Honours and
awards		Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Copenhagen 1801"[2]
FateSunk as breakwater, 1830
General characteristics [3]
Tons burthen1221,[4] or 125621⁄94[1] (bm)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
ComplementEast Indiaman: 125.[4] Royal Navy: 343
Armament
  • East Indiaman: 26 × 12- & 6-pounder guns.[4]
  • RN from 1795:
  • Upper deck – 28 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Lower deck – 28 × 68-pounder carronades (later replaced by 18-pounder long guns)
  • RN from 1804: 44 guns

HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. Wells & Co. of Blackwell launched her on 29 November 1792 for the British East India Company (EIC) as the East Indiaman Glatton. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. Glatton was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line that the Royal Navy had armed exclusively with carronades. (Eventually she returned to a more conventional armament of guns and carronades.) She served in the North Sea and the Baltic, and as a transport for convicts to Australia. She then returned to naval service in the Mediterranean. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Admiralty converted her to a water depot at Sheerness. In 1830 the Admiralty converted Glatton to a breakwater and sank her at Harwich.

  1. ^ a b Hackman (2001), p. 116.
  2. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. pp. 242–243.
  3. ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 112–3.
  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference LoM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).