HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate

First-rate

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 ship of the line

Ship of the line

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 of the Royal Navy

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, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford

Deptford

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. She was built to the lines of Sir Edward Hunt

Edward Hunt

Edward Hunt arrived in Sydney in 1814 and soon rose to prominence in that city. He was a cabinet maker and involved in religious and charitable matters...

's as a replacement for the first HMS Queen Charlotte which had been lost by accident on 17 March 1800.

She was Lord Exmouth's

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary, and the Napoleonic Wars...

 flagship

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 during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816.

The Queen Charlotte was converted to serve as a training ship in 1859 and renamed HMS Excellent. She was eventually sold out of the service to be broken up in 1892.