:::: Napoleonic Ships & American War of Independence - GREAT BRITAIN
Canopus
Code - NPB05
£3.50
Class - 74
Description - H.M.S. CANOPUS 80 GUN SHIP
Built in 1797 as the French “Le Franklin”.
Captured by the Royal Navy in 1798.
Nine “sister ships” built for the R.N. –
Ganges, Asia, Vengeance,Formidable, Powerful,
Bombay, Clarence, Thunderer and Monarch.
Armament 28 x 32 pdr, 38 x 24 pdr
Carronades 2 x 68 pdr, 14 x 32 pdr
Crew 850
