HMS Thunderer (1831)

	Thunderer launched at Woolwich on 22 September 1831 (with inset a view of the New Basin)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Thunderer
Ordered	23 January 1817
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down	April 1823
Launched	22 September 1831
Renamed	HMS Comet, 1869; HMS Nettle, 1870;
Fate	Sold to be broken up, 1901
Notes	Hulked, 1863
General characteristics
Class and type	Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	2255 bm
Length	193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam	52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m)
Depth of hold	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	700 officers and men
Armament	84 guns:; Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades; Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades; Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades;

HMS Thunderer was a two-deck 84-gun second rate ship of the line, a modified version of the Canopus/Formidable-class launched on 22 September 1831 at Woolwich Dockyard.^[1]

She was hulked in 1863 as a target ship at Portsmouth.^[1] Thunderer was renamed twice in quick succession: first in 1869 to Comet after (C / 1868 L1 Winnecke), and again in 1870 to Nettle. HMS Nettle was sold in December 1901 to Messrs. King & co, of Garston, to be broken up.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 190.
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36628. London. 3 December 1901. p. 6.

References

Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Thunderer. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

External links

Media related to HMS Thunderer (ship, 1831) at Wikimedia Commons

This article about a ship of the line of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[Lavery,_SoLv1_p190-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 190.

[2] "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36628. London. 3 December 1901. p. 6.

[1]

[2]