HMS Defence (1815)
Plan drawing of Defence | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Defence |
| Ordered | 23 March 1809 |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down | May 1812 |
| Launched | 25 April 1815 |
| Completed | 7 June 1815 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 21 January 1858 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Vengeur-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,754 9⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 174 ft (53.0 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 47 ft 8 in (14.5 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) (light) |
| Depth of hold | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 590 |
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HMS Defence was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. Completed in 1815, she was never commissioned and served as a prison ship beginning in 1851. Badly damaged by a fire in 1857 the ship was broken up for scrap in 1858.