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Name: BUCEPHALUS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 03/11/1808
Completed: 1808
Builder: William Rowe
Yard: St Peter's
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 976bm, 150.0 x 38.0 x 12.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail
Construction: Wood
Armament: 26 x 18pdr, 4 x 9pdr, 2 x 24clbr guns
History:
1808 British Royal Navy
1834 Broken up
Comments: 1808: Built as a 32 gun frigate
05/1814: Converted to a troop ship
06/1822: Hulked
09/1834: Broken up


Caledonian Mercury, Monday, November 7, 1808