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| Name | HMS Belleisle |
| Ordered | 17 November 1812 |
| Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Laid down | February 1816 |
| Launched | 26 April 1819 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1872 |
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| Tons burthen | 1709 bm |
| Length | 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m) |
| Depth of hold | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]
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.[2] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June.[3]
Belleisle was subsequently used as a hospital shipatChatham. In June 1866, she was lent by the Admiralty to the Seamen's Hospital Society for use as a hospitaly ship in London for seamen suffering from cholera. Whilst being towed up the River Thames by the tug Medusa, she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide.[4] Belleisle was broken up in 1872.[1]
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