HMS Cornwall (1812)

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HMS Cornwall was a 74-gun third-rate Template:Sclass built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. She spent most of her service in reserve and was converted into a reformatory and a school ship in her later years. The ship was broken up in 1875.

Description

Cornwall had a length at the gundeck of Template:Convert and Template:Convert at the keel. She had a beam of Template:Convert, a draught of Template:Convert at deep load and a depth of hold of Template:Convert. The ship's tonnage was 1,751 Template:Fraction tons burthen. Her armament consisted of twenty-eight 32-pounder guns on the lower gundeck and twenty-eight 18-pounder guns on the upper deck. On the quarterdeck were four 12-pounder guns and ten 32-pounder carronades; the forecastle mounted two of each. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, a pair of lower-deck guns were replaced by 68-pounder carronades and a pair of upper deck guns were superseded by 18-pounder carronades. The ship had a crew of 590 officers and ratings.<ref>Winfield, pp. 182, 190.</ref>

After she was razeed to a 50-gun fourth rate ship in 1830, her armament became twenty-eight 32-pounders on the lower gundeck, sixteen lighter 32-pounders on the upper deck and four more 32-pounders on the forecastle. Her crew was consequently reduced to 450 men.<ref>Winfield 2014, p. 182</ref>

Construction and career

Cornwall was the third ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the eponymous county.<ref name=c9>Colledge, p. 79.</ref> The ship was ordered on 30 May 1809 and contracted out to Mrs. Frances Bernard at Deptford. She was laid down in March 1809 and was launched on 16 January 1812. Cornwall served in the English Channel in the Napoleonic Wars.<ref>Winfield 2014, p. 189.</ref>

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Boys of the Tyne Training-Ship Wellesley, at South Shields, 1876

In 1859 she was loaned to the London Association for use as a juvenile reformatory school. On 18 June 1868 she exchanged names with Template:HMS and moved to the Tyne to serve as a school ship. She was broken up at Sheerness in 1875.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p188" />

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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• Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. Template:ISBN.
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