Canopus-class ship of the line
# Canopus-class ship of the line

The Canopus-class ships of the line were a class of nine 84-gun two-deck second rates of the Royal Navy. Their design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of the captured French ship Franklin, since commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Canopus, although this ship herself was not included as a member of the class. The earlier ships were initially ordered as 80-gun third rates, but this classification was altered by changes in the rating system in February 1817. This class of ships is sometimes referred to as the Formidable class.

## Ships

* HMS Formidable

    Builder: Chatham Dockyard
    Ordered: 8 May 1815
    Launched: 19 May 1825
    Fate: Sold, 1906
* HMS Ganges

    Builder: Bombay Dockyard
    Ordered: 4 June 1816
    Launched: 10 November 1821
    Fate: Sold, 1929
* HMS Asia

    Builder: Bombay Dockyard
    Ordered: 22 April 1819
    Launched: 19 January 1824
    Fate: Sold, 1908
* HMS Vengeance

    Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
    Ordered: 23 January 1817
    Launched: 27 July 1824
    Fate: Sold, 1897
* HMS Powerful

    Builder: Chatham Dockyard
    Ordered: 23 January 1817
    Launched: 21 June 1826
    Fate: Broken up, 1864
* HMS Clarence

    Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
    Ordered: 27 May 1819
    Launched: 25 July 1827
    Fate: Burnt, 1884
* HMS Bombay

    Builder: Bombay Dockyard
    Ordered: 26 January 1825
    Launched: 17 February 1828
    Fate: Burnt, 1864
* HMS Thunderer

    Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
    Ordered: 23 January 1817
    Launched: 22 September 1831
    Fate: Sold, 1901
* HMS Monarch

    Builder: Chatham Dockyard
    Ordered: 23 July 1817
    Launched: 18 December 1832
    Fate: Broken up, 1866
