HMS Genoa
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Brillant.
HMS Genoa was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line laid down for the French Navy as Brillant which the British captured incomplete while still on slip at the fall of Genoa in 1814. She was completed for the Royal Navy and served as HMS Genoa until 1838. On 20 October 1827 Genoa took part in the Battle of Navarino where her captain Walter Bathurst was killed.
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HMS Genoa, Commodore Bathurst, at the Battle of Navarino 20 October 1827, drawn by George Philip Reinagle from onboard HMS Mosquito | |
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France | |
Name | Brillant |
Builder | Genoa[1] |
Laid down | 1813 [1] |
Captured | On slip 18 April 1814 [1] |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Genoa [1] |
Launched | 18 April 1815 |
Acquired | 18 April 1814 |
Commissioned | 18 May 1821 |
Fate | Broken up, January 1838 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement |
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Length | 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) |
Beam | 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Complement | 600 |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
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