H.M.S. Queen Charlotte
1794
(Aquarius AQ-2009)
- Class: Umpire 1st rate (3m) 100 gun
- Displacement: 2,289 bm tons
- Dimensions: 190 x 52 x 22 ft
- Armament: 30 x 32pdr, 28 x 24pdr, 30 x 18pdr, 12 x 12pdr
- Complement: 850
- Designer: Sir Edward Hunt
- Built: Chatham Dockyard, England
- Keel laid: 1 September 1785
- Launched: 15 April 1790
- Service: Named for the consort of George III. Flagship of Adm Richard Earl Howe at the Glorious First of June, 1794, when she engaged the French flagship Montagne of Villaret-Joyeuse and the Jacobin. Flagship of Adm Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport, when he engaged another fleet under Villaret-Joyeuse at the Battle of Groix, 23 Jun 1795. Involved in the Nore mutiny of 1797, when she was flagship of Viscount Keith, second in command of the Channel Fleet. Still under Keith three years later in the Mediterranean, she caught fire and sank off Livorno, 17 Mar 1800; 690 lost.
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