For other ships with the same name, see Earl of Abergavenny (ship).
History
East India Company
Name
Earl of Abergavenny
Namesake
Earl of Abergavenny
Owner
William Dent (principal managing owner)
Ordered
5 December 1787
Builder
Joseph Graham, Harwich
Laid down
8 March 1788
Launched
24 August 1789
Fate
Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795
Great Britain
Name
HMS Abergavenny
Namesake
Abergavenny in Monmouthshire
Builder
Thomas Pitched, Northfleet
Acquired
1795
Commissioned
April 1795
Fate
Sold 1807
General characteristics [1]
Class and type
1) Indiaman
2) fourth rate
Tons burthen
118293⁄94 (bm)
Length
160 ft 6+1⁄2 in (48.9 m) (overall)
131 ft 6 in (40.1 m) (keel)
Beam
41 ft 1+1⁄2 in (12.5 m)
Depth of hold
17 ft 0 in (5.2 m)
Sail plan
Full-rigged ship
Complement
Indiaman: 99 men[2]
Fourth rate: 324 men
Armament
Indiaman: 26 × 12 & 9-pounder guns[2]
Fourth rate:
Gun deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
Upper deck: 26 × 32-pounder carronades
Fc: 2 × 18-pounder carronades
HMS Abergavenny was originally Earl of Abergavenny, an East Indiaman sailing for the British East India Company (EIC). As an East Indiaman she made two trips to China between 1790 and 1794. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795, converted her to a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, and renamed her. One year later the East India Company built a new and much larger ship which was also named the Earl of Abergavenny and which sank off Weymouth Bay in 1805. HMS Abergavenny was sold for breaking in 1807.
^Winfield (2008), pp. 111–2.
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