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HMS Stately (1784)

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Name
  
HMS Stately

Builder
  
Raymond, Northam

Fate
  
Broken up, 1814

Launched
  
27 December 1784

Ordered
  
10 December 1778

Laid down
  
25 May 1779

Construction started
  
25 May 1779

Honours andawards
  
Naval general Service Medal with clasps"Egypt""Stately 22 March 1808"

HMS Stately was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 December 1784 at Northam.

Contents

French Revolutionary Wars

Sir Richard King took command of Stately at Portsmouth on 24 July 1793, which was reported in The Times newspaper.

The Admiralty had Stately converted for use a troopship in 1799. Because Stately served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.

Napoleonic Wars

The Navy reverted her to a fully armed warship once war resumed after the end of the Treaty of Amiens.

Battle of Zealand Point

On 22 March 1808, Stately and Nassau destroyed the last Danish ship of the line, Prins Christian Frederik, commanded by Captain C.W.Jessen, in a battle at Zealand Point.

In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasps "Stately 22 March 1808" and "Nassau 22 March 1808" to any still surviving crew members of those vessels that chose to claim them.

Fate

Stately was broken up in 1814.

References

HMS Stately (1784) Wikipedia


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