The Black Prince-class ships of the line were a class of four 74-gun third rates built for the Royal Navy in the closing years of the Napoleonic War. The draught for this class of ship was essentially a reduced version of the captured Danish ship .Winfield, p. 85
Wellesley, while ordered to be built to this design and always officially so classified, was actually built to the design of and used the moulds of , a Vengeur/Armada-class ship previously built at Bombay; this was because the set of plans sent from the Navy Board and intended for the construction of Wellesley were lost en route to India when the ship carrying them was captured and burnt by the Americans. Wellesley later gained the distinction in 1940 of being the only ship of the line to be sunk by air attack.
Hawke was converted to screw propulsion in the 1850s when adapted as a 60-gun "blockship".
Ships
Builder: Bombay Dockyard Ordered: 6 January 1812 Begun: May 1813 Launched: 24 February 1815 Fate: Sunk in air attack by the Luftwaffe, 1940
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 14 August 1810 Begun: July 1814 Launched: 30 March 1816 Fate: Broken up, 1855
Builder: Bombay Dockyard Ordered: 6 September 1813 Begun: July 1815 Launched: 17 February 1817 Fate: Sold, 1873
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 6 January 1812 Begun: April 1815 Launched: 16 March 1820 Fate: Broken up, 1865
Citations
References
Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif (2004) The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889 Chatham Publishing, 2004. .