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{{short description|Ship of the line of the Royal Navy}}
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|Ship caption=The hospital ship ''Belleisle'' taking provisions during the Crimean War
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|Ship country=[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
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|Ship name=HMS ''Belleisle''
|Ship ordered=17 November 1812
|Ship builder=Pembroke Dockyard
|Ship laid down=February 1816
|Ship launched=26 April 1819
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|Ship fate=Broken up, 1872

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|Header caption=<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p189">Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.</ref>
|Ship class=*{{sclass|Repulse|ship of the line}},
*later a [[hospital ship]]
|Ship tons burthen=1709 [[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]]
|Ship length={{convert|174|ft|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
|Ship beam={{convert|47|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship hold depth={{convert|20|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship sail plan=[[Full-rigged ship]]
|Ship propulsion=Sails
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|Ship armament=*74 guns:
*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
*Quarterdeck: 14 × 9-pounders
*Forecastle: 4 × 9-pounders
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[[File:'Sceptre' (1802); 'Repulse' (1803); 'Eagle' (1804); 'Belleisle' (1819); 'Malabar' (1818); 'Talavera' (1818) RMG J3340.png|thumb|Plans of ''Belleisle'']]
'''HMS ''Belleisle''''' was a 74-gun [[third-rate]] [[ship of the line]] of the [[Royal Navy]], launched on 26 April 1819 at [[Pembroke Dockyard]].<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p189" />

''Belleisle'' was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841 and sailed for China in Dec. 1841 for the [[First Opium War]]. She stayed in China until the Treaty of Nanking was signed in 1842.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DOIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|title=The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard|first=Phil|last=Carradice|date=15 August 2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|page=38|isbn=9781445613109 |via=Google Books}}</ref> On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the [[Bosphorus]]. She was refloated on 13 June.<ref name=RCG010856>{{Cite news |title=Devon |newspaper=The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser |location=Truro |date=1 August 1856 |issue=2771 |page=5 }}</ref>

''Belleisle'' was subsequently used as a [[hospital ship]] at [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]]. In June 1866, she was lent by the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] to the [[Seamen's Hospital Society]] for use as a hospital ship in [[London]] for seamen suffering from [[cholera]]. Whilst being towed up the [[River Thames]] by the [[tugboat|tug]] ''Medusa'', she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide.<ref name=Times070666>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=7 June 1866 |page=12 |issue=25518 |column=E-F }}</ref> ''Belleisle'' was broken up in 1872.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p189" />

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==References==
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*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Belleisle (ship, 1819)|HMS Belleisle (1819)}}

{{Repulse class ship of the line}}
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{{1866 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy]]
[[Category:Repulse-class ships of the line]]
[[Category:Troop ships of the Royal Navy]]
[[Category:Ships built in Pembroke Dock]]
[[Category:1819 ships]]
[[Category:Hospital ships of the Royal Navy]]
[[Category:Crimean War naval ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in June 1856]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in June 1866]]


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