HMS Wellesley (1815)
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HMS Wellesley was a 74-gun third rate, named after the Duke of Wellington, and launched in 1815. She captured Karachi for the British, and participated in the First Opium War, which resulted in Britain gaining control of Hong Kong. Thereafter she served primarily as a training ship before gaining the almost surely unwanted distinction of being the last British ship of the line to be sunk by enemy action and the only one to have been sunk by an air-raid.
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Name | HMS Wellesley |
Namesake | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
Ordered | 3 September 1812 |
Builder | Bombay Dockyard |
Laid down | May 1813 |
Launched | 24 February 1815 |
Renamed | TS Cornwall, 1868 |
Honours and awards | China 1840–42 |
Fate | Sunk by bombing, 24 September 1940, raised and broken up 1948 |
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Class and type | Officially part of the Black Prince class, but built to the lines of the Vengeur class |
Tons burthen | 1745 75⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 47 ft 7 in (14.5 m) |
Depth of hold | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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