HMS La Hogue
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HMS La Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p188">Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 188.</ref> She was named after the 1692 Battle of La Hogue. "The La Hogue of 1811 [...] sported a green and chocolate lion, its grinning mouth displaying rows of white teeth and a huge red tongue."<ref "name=Lubbock">Lubbock, Basil (1922), The Blackwall Frigates, p.21.</ref>
Description
La Hogue measured Template:Convert on the gundeck and Template:Convert on the keel. She had a beam of Template:Convert, a depth of hold of Template:Convert and had a tonnage of 1749 Template:Fraction tons burthen. The ship was armed with 74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns that consisted of twenty-eight 32-pounder guns on her lower gundeck and twenty-eight 18-pounder guns on her upper gundeck. In addition, her forecastle mounted a pair of 12-pounder guns and two 32-pounder carronades. On her quarterdeck she carried four 12-pounders and ten 32-pounder carronades.<ref>Winfield, pp. 73–74</ref>
After the ship was razeed into a 50-gun frigate from November 1824 to March 1826, she was armed with twenty-eight 32-pounder 56 cwt<ref group=Note>"Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 56 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.</ref> guns on her gundeck, sixteen 32-pounder 48 cwt guns on the quarterdeck and six more on the forecastle.<ref>Winfield, pp. 73, 111</ref>
History
During the War of 1812, while under the command of Thomas Bladen Capel, on 16 May 1813 Hogue recaptured and sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the packet Template:Ship.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> Ann had been on her way from Jamaica to Halifax when the American privateer Yorktown had captured her. However, the American privateer Young Teazer again captured Ann and sent her into Portland, Maine.
Later, La Hogue successfully trapped Young Teazer off the coast of Nova Scotia, British North America.
On 16 August 1813 La Hogue captured the Portuguese ship Flor de Mar. At the time Template:HMS was in sight.Template:Refn
La Hogue was driven ashore at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 12 November 1813 during a storm.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
From 7–8 April 1814, ships' boats of the La Hogue, Template:HMS, Maidstone and Template:HMS attacked Pettipague point.<ref>James, p325</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "8 Apr Boat Service 1814" to all surviving claimants from the action.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> The raid was commanded by Coote,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> who was promoted as a result of the successful outcome, as was Lieutenant Pyne of the La Hogue who assisted him.<ref>Marshall, pp301-304</ref>
In September 1814, La Hogue anchored near the Scituate Light station on the coast of Massachusetts with the intent of sending a raiding party into the town. Rebecca and Abigail Bates, the lighthouse keeper's daughters, repulsed the attack by playing a drum and a fife that had been left at the station, simulating the approach of the town militia.
La Hogue was converted into a screw-propelled steamship frigate in 1850. From 1852, she acted as a guard-ship at Devonport under the command of Captain William Ramsay and saw her final service, still under Ramsay, on duties in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On 18 September 1855, she ran aground off Renskär, Sweden and was severely damaged. She was refloated with the assistance of three gunboats after her lower deck guns were taken out.<ref name=Times031055>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref>
She was eventually broken up in 1865.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p188" />
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References
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