HMS Belleisle (1819)

	The hospital ship Belleisle loading provisions during the Crimean War
History
United Kingdom
Name	Belleisle
Ordered	17 November 1812
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	February 1816
Launched	26 April 1819
Commissioned	10 April 1839
Out of service	10 November 1868
Reclassified	As a troopship, 1841; As a hospital ship, 1854;
Fate	Broken up by 12 October 1872
General characteristics
Class & type	Repulse-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,709 12⁄94 (bm)
Length	174 ft 3 in (53.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam	48 ft 1 in (14.7 m)
Draught	16 ft 10 in (5.1 m) (light)
Depth of hold	20 ft (6.1 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	590
Armament	74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns; Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns; Upper deck: 28 × 18 pdr guns; Quarterdeck: 2 × 18 pdr guns + 12 × 32 pdr carronades; Forecastle: 2 × 18 pdr guns + 2 × 32 pdr carronades; Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades;

HMS Belleisle was a third-rate Repulse-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. Upon completion in 1819, the ship was placed in ordinary. She was not commissioned until 1839 and was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. Belleisle was converted into a troopship in 1841 and participated in the First Opium War in China. The ship converted into a hospital ship in 1854 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War of 1854–1855. She participated in the Second Opium War of 1856–1860 and was placed in reserve upon her return home. Bellisle was used as a hospital ship for sick sailors in 1866–1868 in Greenwich, before she was broken up in 1872.