The 74-gun third-rate H.M.S. Revenge, 1,918 tons b.m., was designed by Sir John Henslow, Surveyor of the Navy, and built at Chatham Dockyard. Ordered in 1796, her keel was finally laid in August 1800 and she was launched on 13 April 1805. Measuring 182 feet in length with a 49 foot beam, she carried a crew of 590 officers and men and, in 1812, became the first ship to be fitted with a ground tier of metal tanks (for fresh water and provisions). First commissioned by Captain Robert Moorsom for service with the Channel Fleet, she joined the blockading squadron off Cadiz and then took part in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, where she fought in the lee column suffering severe damage. Refitted in Gibraltar, she returned to sea and was in action against the French repeatedly, including the fireship attack on their fleet lying in the Basque Roads on 11 April 1809. In December 1813 she went to the Adriatic as flagship to Rear-Admiral Sir John Gore and remained there until peace was concluded in 1815. In the Mediterranean for much of the period from 1823 onwards, she took part in the bombardment of Beirut and then the subsequent capture of Acre in 1840 after which she returned to Sheerness where she remained until being broken up in 1849.