HMS Warrior (1781)

HMS Warrior as a prison ship in 1842
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Warrior
Ordered13 July 1773
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Laid downNovember 1773
Launched18 October 1781
CommissionedOctober 1781
FateBroken up, 1857
Notes
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeAlfred-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1,642 (bm)
Length169 ft (52 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 2 in (14.38 m)
Depth of hold20 ft (6.1 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns
Warrior protecting a convoy passing Reefness (the Røsnæs peninsula, Denmark), September 1807

HMS Warrior was a 74-gun Alfred-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1781 at Portsmouth.[1]

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 180.