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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Redoubtable.

Redoubtable
History
United Kingdom
Name	Redoubtable
Ordered	29 December 1806
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down	April 1809
Launched	26 January 1815
Commissioned	Never commissioned
Fate	Broken up, May 1841
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,758 91⁄94 (bm)
Length	176 ft 5 in (53.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 8 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft 1 in (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 Redoubtable was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. Completed in 1815, she was immediately placed in ordinary and was never commissioned.

Redoubtable was broken up in 1841.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0.
• Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2nd, revised ed.). Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.