HMS Vigo (1810)

	Vigo
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Vigo
Ordered	20 October 1806
Builder	Ross, Rochester
Laid down	April 1807
Launched	21 February 1810
Fate	Broken up, 1865
General characteristics
Class and type	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1787 bm
Length	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	74 guns:; Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades; Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades; Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades;

HMS Vigo was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 February 1810 at Rochester.^[1]

She became a receiving ship in 1827, and was broken up in 1865.^[1]

HMS Vigo is one of the few but significant number of ships to have been built by a shipyard owned by a women. A Mrs Mary Ross was the widow of the former owner of Acorn Warf at Rochester. She was evidently successful in the business and would go on to build a further 8 vessels for the Royal Navy, including one other 74-gun ship, HMS Stirling Castle.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 188.
^ Doe, Helen (2006). "Challenging Images: Mrs Mary Ross of Rochester, nineteenth‐century businesswoman and warship builder". Journal for Maritime Research. 8 (1): 46–60.

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p188-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 188.

[2] Doe, Helen (2006). "Challenging Images: Mrs Mary Ross of Rochester, nineteenth‐century businesswoman and warship builder". Journal for Maritime Research. 8 (1): 46–60.

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