The vengeur-class battleships were a class of forty 74-gun ships of the third rate, designed for the royal navy by the combined forces of two then surveyors of the navy (sir william rule and henry pick). The vengeur class, sometimes referred to among other things as the surveyors class of the third rank, was the most extensive category of ships of the line formerly built for the royal navy - there were forty ships of this design. Due to certain dubious procedures, mainly in the production shipyards used for construction, this class of ships acquired the nickname "forty thieves". Down one deck (many years for a 50-gun "frigate" venture. These were barham, dublin, alfred, cornwall, america, conquestador, rodney (renamed greenwich), vindictive, eagle and gloucester planned similar conversions of clarence (renamed centurion) and cressy were canceled at about the same time, but the warspite was further refitted on the same principle in the years 1837-1840.
About 1845, four of these ships were converted into "blockships" - the then term for floating batteries, equipped with a steam / propeller propulsion system and re-equipped with 60 guns. In the failures of the guise, few were involved in hostilities during the crimean war. The four included blenheim, ajax, "la hog" and "edinburgh". A dozen years later, an additional batch of 5 ships was similarly converted - this included the russell, cornwallis and pembroke of this category and the hawk and hastings of other projects).
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The first ship - vindictive - was called at the dawn of 1806 in portsmouth, but the activities were not carried out until 1808. October 1806, when three ships were ordered from her, and four more followed in her month. 3 more orders were placed for one hundred percent of the year, but two of the above ships ("akbar" and "augusta") were canceled in 1809.
Orders also for eighteen tripod ships were laid out on throughout 1807 (even nine of july 13) six more in the first half of 1808, many usually built by commercial contractors, to bring the total number of orders to twenty-five. Two of the 1806 orders were canceled in 1809, but also three ships were ordered from the royal dockyards in 1809–1811, and the last four on 6 january 1812, although the last of these, the boscawen, did not leave completed at all on this project.
Two more ships were ordered under this project, in particular hms boscawen (ordered january 6, 1812) and hms carnatic (ordered september 30, 1814), but none of which left completed thanks to this project. Two more ordered at the completion of 1806 - hms akbar, built on prince of wales island, malaya, and hms augusta https://52theworld.com/ in portsmouth - were canceled in 1809, and in addition two were designed in 1807 - hms julius was planned to be built in chatham and hms orford in rio de janeiro. - Not ordered.
In fiction[edit]
A fictitious member of this category of the 74s, hms worcester, appears predominantly in the ionian mission, some from the aubrey-maturin group of novels by patrick o'brian.
- Lavery, brian (2003) the ship of the line - volume 1: the development of the battle fleet 1650-1850. Conway maritime press. Isbn 0-85177-252-8 .- Winfield, reef (2008) british warships in the age of yachting. 1793–1817. Seaforth publishing. Isbn 978-1-84415-717-4.