HMS Pembroke (1812)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pembroke and HMS Forte.

HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 June 1812 at Blackwall Yard.^[1]

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pembroke
Ordered	17 May 1808
Builder	Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard
Laid down	March 1809
Launched	27 June 1812
Fate	Sold, 1905
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1758 bm
Length	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Pembroke was driven ashore near Portsmouth in late December 1812 . She was refloated on 29 December 1812 by the frigates HMS Niobe and HMS Pomone and the ship-sloop HMS Rosamond.^[2]

As a part of a squadron under the command of Sir James Brisbane Pembroke, in company with Alcmene and Aigle, on 11 April 1814 captured Fortune, Notre Dame de Leusainte, and a settee of unknown name, at Fort Maurigio, in the Gulf of Genoa, near Monaco. The squadron silenced the fort's guns, and attacked 20 vessels; 4 were captured, and the cargoes of another 15 taken off ships whose crews scuttled them.^{[3][4][5][Note 1]}

In 1836 Pembroke formed part of an experimental squadron, which were groups of ships sent out in the 1830s and 1840s to test new techniques of ship design, armament, building, and propulsion. In March 1837, she was driven ashore at Gibraltar, but she later was refloated with assistance from the French steamship Minos.^[7][8]

Pembroke was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855.^[1] On 16 September 1857, she ran down and sank the British brig Lady Sale off the Isle of May.^[9] The Admiralty Court found Pembroke to blame for the collision.^[10] She was transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887. She was renamed HMS Forte as a receiving hulk in 1890, and was eventually sold out of the navy in 1905.^[1]

Squadron under the command of Sir J Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio 1814

HMS Pembroke in a squall, 12 April 1839

Notes

1. A first-class share of the prize money was worth £95 4s 0d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 12s 7d.^[6]