HMS Pitt (1816)

NamePitt

Ordered17 April 1807

BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard

Laid downMay 1813

Plan drawing of Pitt
History
United Kingdom
Name	Pitt
Ordered	17 April 1807
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	May 1813
Launched	13 April 1816
Commissioned	Never commissioned
Reclassified	As a receiving ship and coal hulk, May 1853 As a coal hulk, January 1860
Fate	Broken up, 17 March 1877
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,751 2⁄94 (bm)
Length	176 ft (53.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 8 in (14.5 m)
Draught	18 ft 3 in (5.6 m) (light)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	590
Armament	74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns Upper deck: 28 × 18 pdr guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdr guns + 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdr guns + 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Pitt was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. Left incomplete after her launching in 1816, she was finally completed in 183, but was never commissioned.

and launched on 13 April 1816 at Portsmouth Dockyard.^[1]

She never served any military function.^[2]

Pitt was sold for use as a "coal depot" in 1860, sitting In Portsmouth Docks but purely to hold coal brought in by sea from the north to serve the south of England. She was broken up in 1877.