HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)

HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford.

A Black sailor from Grenada named William Brown was discharged from Queen Charlotte in 1815 for being a woman.

On 17 September 1817, Linnet, a tender to Queen Charlotte, seized a smuggled cargo of tobacco.

[Note 1] On 17 December 1823, Queen Charlotte was driven into the British ship Brothers at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

[4] Queen Charlotte was converted to serve as a training ship in 1859 and renamed HMS Excellent.

The Excellent , in Portsmouth Harbour c. 1862, firing her great gun in a practice drill. George Washington Wilson