Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Warspite
Ordered:	13 January 1798
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	3 December 1805
Launched:	16 November 1807
Fate:	Burnt, 1876
Notes:	Reduced to 50 guns, 1840
General characteristics
Class and type:	74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1890 tons (1920. Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks Year 1798 ( MDCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published Year 1807 ( MDCCCVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year In the British Royal Navy, a third-rate was a Ship of the line mounting 64 to 80 guns typically built with two Gun decks (thus the related term A ship-of-the-line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th century through the mid-19th century to take part in the the naval tactic known as the Line of battle 3 tonnes)
Length:	179 ft 10 in (54. This article is about the tonne or metric ton For other tons see Ton. 8 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	49 ft (15 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6. 4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 30 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 November 1807 at Chatham. In the British Royal Navy, a third-rate was a Ship of the line mounting 64 to 80 guns typically built with two Gun decks (thus the related term A ship-of-the-line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th century through the mid-19th century to take part in the the naval tactic known as the Line of battle The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published Year 1807 ( MDCCCVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught. Sir John Henslow ( 9 October 1730 - 22 September 1815) was Surveyor to the Navy ( Royal Navy) between 1774 and 1806 in the As a large 74, she carried 24 pdrs on her upper gun deck instead of the 18 pdrs found on the middling and common class 74s.

Warspite was reduced to a 50-gun ship in 1840, and was destroyed by fire in 1876. Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

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