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Note: N5532 “A short time before the Queen Charlotte blew up, and after all hope of stopping the flames was at an end, he quitted her on the same plank as the 1st. Lieutenant (Bainbridge) and both perished together” Edinburgh Magazine 1800 (as did Capt Todd and 673 men in all) (and see http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/15301/35.html)
Queen Charlotte was a first rate ship-of-the-line with 100 guns. Launched at Chatham Dock Yard on the 15 April 1790 she was 190’ x 52’ 6” with a displacement of 2286 bm (bm = builder's measurement, based on the number of casks or tuns a ship could carry). She was accidentally blown up off Leghorn on the 17 March 1800.
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