HMS Sultan

Ship History

HMS Sultan was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 September 1807, at Deptford Dockyard.

The Sultan was serving in the Channel blockade at the time Napoleon's armies invaded Britain in December 1807. She, like the Goliath, had been harpooned and entangled by the French dragons, enabling the French fleet to sail from the port of Calais and land on the British coast.

Ship Data

Ship Ordered:	31 January 1805
Ship builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	December 1805
Launched:	19 September 1807
Class:	Fame class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	tons (1779.1 tonnes)
Length:	175 ft (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in
Hold depth:	20 ft 6 in
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 4 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.