HMS Valorous (1816)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name= Valorous |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered=28 November 1812 |Ship builder= Pater Dockyard |Ship laid down=March 1815 |Ship launched= 10 February 1816 |Ship commissioned=February 1821 |Ship completed=26 March 1816 |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Broken up by 13 August 1829 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Hermes|post ship}} |Ship tons burthen= 513 {{frac|53|94}} bm |Ship length=*{{convert|121|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on|1}} (gundeck)
|Ship beam={{convert|31|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draught= |Ship depth={{convert|8|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship endurance= |Ship complement=135 |Ship armament=* 18 × 32-pounder carronades
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HMS Valorous was a 20-gun {{sclass|Hermes|post ship|}} sixth-rate post ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. She was placed in commission in 1821 for service abroad in the Caribbean and Newfoundland. Two of her captains were forced to resign their commands during this time and the ship was placed in reserve in 1826 until she was broken up in 1829.
Description
Valorous had a length at the gundeck of {{convert|121|ft|7|in|m|1}} and {{convert|100|ft|6|in|m|1}} at the keel. She had a beam of {{convert|30|ft|11|in|m|1}} and a depth of hold of {{convert|8|ft|9|in|m|1}}. The ship's tonnage was 513 {{fraction|53|94}} tons burthen. Valorous was initially armed with eighteen 32-pounder carronades on her gundeck and a pair of 9-pounder cannon as chase guns. The ship had a crew of 135 officers and ratings.Winfield 2008, p. 114
Construction and career
Valorous, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge, p. 368 was ordered on 28 November 1812, laid down in March 1815 in Pater Dockyard, Wales, and launched, together with her sister ship, {{HMS|Ariadne|1816|2}}, on 10 February 1813. She was completed on 26 March 1816 at Plymouth Dockyard at the cost of £11,726 and placed in ordinary.
She was converted into a 26-gun post ship at Plymouth Dockyard in March 1820 – 4 July 1821. The ship's first commission began in February 1821 under the command of Captain James Murray for service on the Newfoundland Station. Murray was forced to resign his command the following year and Valorous recommissioned in August 1824 with Captain Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon, in command for service in the Caribbean. He grew seriously ill in 1825 and was also forced to resign.Winfield 2014, p. 202 The ship was placed in ordinary again at Chatham Dockyard in 1826–1829 and was broken up by 13 August 1829.
Notes
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References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander|title=Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK|isbn=978-0-7509-5214-9}}
- {{cite book|last = Winfield|first = Rif|title = British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher = Seaforth| year = 2008|isbn=978-1-84415-717-4}}
- {{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1817–1863|date=2014|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-47383-743-0|type=epub}}
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