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Class overview

Name:	Canopus
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	None
Succeeded by:	Vanguard-class
In service:	10 November 1821 - 1929
Completed:	9
General characteristics
Type:	Ship of the line
Length:	193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck) 160 ft 2⅝ in (48.835 m) (keel)
Beam:	52 ft 4½ in (15.964 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Armament:	84 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades
Notes:	Ships in class include: Ganges, Asia, Vengeance, Formidable, Powerful, Clarence, Bombay, Thunderer, Monarch

The Canopus-class ships of the line were a class of nine 80-84 gun two-deck second rates of the Royal Navy. Their design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of the captured French ship Franklin, since commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Canopus. This class of ships is sometimes referred to as the Formidable-class.