HMS Carnatic (1823)

Figurehead of HMS Carnatic, 1823. Solid Imagery © National Museum of the Royal Navy
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Carnatic
Ordered10 November 1817
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Laid downJanuary 1818
Launched21 October 1823
FateSold, 1914
General characteristics
Class & type74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1790 bm
Length177 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam48 ft 10+12 in (14.9 m)
Depth of hold21 ft 2 in (6.45 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Carnatic was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 October 1823 at Portsmouth Dockyard. Her design was based on HMS Cornwallis, as completed.

Carnatic was used first as a store and then as a coal hulk in 1860, before becoming a powder store on loan to the War Department between 1886 and 1891, and then subsequently used by the Admiralty.

The ship was sold out of the navy in 1914 and broken up in Germany