HMS Powerful (1783)

Plan of Powerful
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Powerful
Ordered	8 July 1780
Builder	Perry, Blackwall Yard
Laid down	April 1781
Launched	3 April 1783
Commissioned	22 April 1783
Decommissioned	October 1809
Fate	Broken up, 1812
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Elizabeth-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1627 (bm)
Length	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam	46 ft (14 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Powerful was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.^[1] She took part in the defeat of a Dutch fleet in the Battle of Camperdown in 1797, the capture of a French privateer in the action of 9 July 1806, in operations against the Dutch in the East Indies during the raids on Batavia and Griessie in 1806 and 1807, and finally in the Walcheren Campaign during 1809.