HMS Thunderer (1760)

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File:Ship of 74-gun model 1760.jpg
Model of a 74-gun ship, 3rd rate, circa 1760. Thought to be either HMS Hercules or HMS Thunderer from 1760.
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Thunderer
Ordered: 15 July 1756
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 19 March 1760
Fate: Wrecked, 1780
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Hercules-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1609 tons (1634.8 tonnes)
Length: 166 ft 6 in (50.75 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 46 ft 6 in (14.17 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

74 guns:

  • Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarter deck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich.[1] She was involved in a single-ship action with the French Achille in 1761.

She foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies in 1780.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.

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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