Ships
- HMS Formidable
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 8 May 1815
- Launched: 19 May 1825
- Fate: Sold, 1906
- HMS Ganges
- Builder: Bombay Dockyard
- Ordered: 4 June 1816
- Launched: 10 November 1821
- Fate: Sold, 1929
- HMS Asia
- Builder: Bombay Dockyard
- Ordered: 22 April 1819
- Launched: 19 January 1824
- Fate: Sold, 1908
- HMS Vengeance
- Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
- Ordered: 23 January 1817
- Launched: 27 July 1824
- Fate: Sold, 1897
- HMS Powerful
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 23 January 1817
- Launched: 21 June 1826
- Fate: Broken up, 1864
- HMS Clarence
- Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
- Ordered: 27 May 1819
- Launched: 25 July 1827
- Fate: Burnt, 1884
- HMS Bombay
- Builder: Bombay Dockyard
- Ordered: 26 January 1825
- Launched: 17 February 1828
- Fate: Burnt, 1864
- HMS Thunderer
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 23 January 1817
- Launched: 22 September 1831
- Fate: Sold, 1901
- HMS Monarch
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 23 July 1817
- Launched: 18 December 1832
- Fate: Broken up, 1866
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