HMS Trafalgar (1820)

HMS Trafalgar was ordered as a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line,[1] re-rated as a 106-gun first-rate ship of the line whose keel was laid in 1813 and which was launched on 26 July 1820 at Chatham.She was designed by the Surveyors of the Navy (including William Rule), and was the only ship built to her draught.She cannot have been the hulk referred to in the unpublished diary of Col. Archibald Butter (1857) as lying in Simons Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa: 'The Camperdown a hulk is kept as a store ship'.She was renamed HMS Pitt on 29 July 1882 and was sold out of the Navy in May 1906 and was broken up at Charlton.This article about a ship of the line of the United Kingdom is a stub.
HMS TrafalgarHMS CamperdownHMS PittUnited Kingdomsecond-rateship of the lineFull-rigged shipcarronadesfirst-rateChathamSurveyors of the NavyWilliam RuleCape Town