British HMS gunnery training ship Excellent 1859-1892

Her building as the 104-gun 1st rate ship of the line Queen Charlotte at the Deptford dockyard was ordered on 9 July 1801, her keel was not earlier laid down as in October four years later, launched on 17 July 1810, commissioned in January 1813, on 22 November 1859 renamed Excellent an at Portsmouth in August of the next year converted into a gunnery training ship and finally sold to J. Read to be broken up on 12 January 1892. Her building was begun by the shipwright Henry Peake and in June 1806 taken over by Robert Nelson.

As a ship of the line she had a builders measurement of 2,288 60/94 tons burthen andwere her dimensions 156’2¾ 190‘½” (gundeck) x 52’5¾”x 22’4’ and a draught of 16’3”-19’9”.