HMS Vengeance (1774)
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Name: | HMS Vengeance |
Ordered: | 14 January 1771 |
Builder: | Randall, Rotherhithe |
Laid down: | April 1771 |
Launched: | 25 June 1774 |
Fate: | Broken up, 1816 |
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Class and type: | Royal Oak-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1626 37⁄94 (bm)) |
Length: | 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
Depth of hold: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Armament: |
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HMS Vengeance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 June 1774 at Rotherhithe.[1] By 1780, she was at the island of Martinique, and was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780[2] but recovered and made her way to Portsmouth to be repaired. Finished in 1803, the ship was put into reserve before becoming a prison ship in the year 1808.
She became a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816.[1]
Citations and notes
- 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
- ↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228). 1780-12-29.
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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