H.M.S. Hogue, built at Deptford Dockyard in 1811, is shown on the 5c. stamp. She was a 3rd Rate of 74 guns, 1,750 tons b.m., with a length of 176 ft., and 481/2 ft. beam. She was converted into a screw ship in 1850, her displacement increasing to 1,846 tons and was broken up in 1865 at Devon-port. At the time of her conversion to steam propulsion, most of the officers were very reluctant to acknowledge the change was for the better, and called the new steamers "smoke jacks" in a derogatory manner. The more progressive could not help seeing that with the advent of the screw propeller, the days of the sailing warship were numbered. Curiously enough the finest sailing ships in commerce were all built after the sailing vessel had become obsolescent by the coming of steam. The lion figurehead was common to the smaller ships of the Fleet. SG1126