HMS Wellington (1816)

Plan drawing of Wellington
History
United Kingdom
NameHero
Ordered6 January 1812
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downJuly 1813
Launched21 September 1816
Completed6 December 1816
CommissionedMarch 1848
RenamedWellington, 4 December 1816
FateSold for scrap, 8 April 1908
General characteristics (as built)
Class & typeVengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1,757 1994 (bm)
Length176 ft 6 in (53.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam48 ft 5 in (14.8 m)
Draught17 ft 7 in (5.4 m) (light)
Depth of hold21 ft (6.4 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement590
Armament

HMS Akbar was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. Originally named Hero, the ship was renamed Wellington shortly after she was launched in 1816. Completed later that year, she was immediately placed in ordinary.

She became a training ship in 1862 and was renamed Akbar; she was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1908 and broken up.