Prince Regent was ordered on 6 January 1812,
laid down at
HM Dockyard, Chatham on 17 July 1815,
launched on 12 April 1823 and
commissioned 6 December 1822. The ship was completed on 3 September 1823 and became the flagship of the
Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, Vice-Admiral Sir
Benjamin Hallowell and continued in that duty until 1831. She was
paid off after a voyage to
Lisbon,
Portugal, in 1832.
Prince Regent remained in ordinary until the
Board of Admiralty decided that she was so
crank-sided that she had to be cut down a deck and ordered her converted into a 92-gun second rate in March 1844. The work lasted until September 1847 and proved to be exceedingly expensive; enough so that further conversions of a similar nature were considered uneconomical. The ship was recommissioned on 7 December 1847 and was the flagship of
Rear-Admiral Armar Lowry Corry, commander of the
Western Squadron, in 1852–1853. She was paid off and placed in ordinary on 16 December 1854 and remained in that status until 1860. The conversion of the ship to steam power as an 89-gun second rate was ordered on 3 February 1860 and work began at
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth, five days later. It was completed on 27 May 1861.
Prince Regent never went to sea afterwards and her demolition was completed on 28 July 1873. ==Notes==