HMS Princess Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Nicholas Diddams (but completed after his death)[2] launched on 14 September 1825 at Portsmouth.[1] The occasion was notable for the fact that the gates of the dry dock into which she was to be placed burst because of the high tide and more than 40 people were drowned.From 1837 to 1841 she served as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet flying the flag of Vice Admiral Sir Robert Stopford and thus took part in the Syrian War and the bombardment of Acre.[4] Her commanders included Captain Robert Devereux Fanshaw from 1837 to 1841 (as flagship to Admiral Sir Robert Stopford) and Sir Henry George Thomsett from 1858 to 1861.This article about a ship of the line of the United Kingdom is a stub.
Princess Charlotte
and part of the Allied Fleet in a heavy gale at
St George Bay
near Beyrout, 2 December 1840, by John Frederick Warre RN
