Name HMS Cumberland Laid down August 1805 Name HMS Fortitude Launched 19 August 1807 | Ordered 31 January 1805 Renamed 1833 Construction started August 1805 | |
Fate Converted to prison ship, 1830 |
HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 August 1807 at Northfleet. During the Napoleonic wars she brought King William I of the Netherlands from London to The Netherlands.
She was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1830. She was renamed Fortitude in 1833.
She was eventually sold out of the service in 1870.
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