HMS Panther (1758)

HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Panther.

History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Panther
Ordered: 25 May 1756
Builder: Martin and Henniker, Chatham
Laid down: June 1756
Launched: 22 June 1758
Commissioned: 3 September 1758
In service:
  • 1758–1765
  • 1771–1774
  • 1777–1783
  • 1807–1813
Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard, November 1813
General characteristics
Class and type: Edgar-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1285​59⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 154 ft 0 in (46.94 m) (gundeck)
  • 127 ft 0 in (38.71 m) (keel)
Beam: 43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 420
Armament:
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

She served during the Seven Years' War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila. On 31 October 1761 Panther and the Coventry-class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.[2]

Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.[1]

Plan of the attack against Fort Louis (now Fort George), at Point à Pitre, Guadeloupe by a squadron, detached from Commodore Moore and commanded by Captain Wm. Harman of HMS Berwick on 14 February 1759. Showing Panther

Notes
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p. 177.
  2. Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press. p. 75-76. ISBN 0859894266.

References
  • Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.


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