HMS Boscawen (1844)

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Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Boscawen
Ordered:	11 May 1817
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	January 1826
Launched:	3 April 1844
Fate:	Broken up, 1914
General characteristics
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2048 tons (2080.9 tonnes)
Length:	187 ft 4½ in (57.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	50 ft 9 in (15.5 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Boscawan was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 April 1844 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was originally ordered and begun as a 74-gun ship, but an Admiralty order dated 3 March 1834 required that she be reworked to Sir William Symonds' design. She was named for Admiral Edward Boscawen.

In 1874, Boscawen was converted into the Wellesley Training Ship. She was broken up in 1914.

HMS Boscawen was also the name of the Naval Police Patrol HQ at Portland during the Second World War.

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