HMS Panther (1758)

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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
NameHMS Panther
Ordered25 May 1756
BuilderMartin and Henniker, Chatham
Laid downJune 1756
Launched22 June 1758
Commissioned3 September 1758
In service
  • 1758–1765
  • 1771–1774
  • 1777–1783
  • 1807–1813
FateBroken up at Portsmouth Dockyard, November 1813
General characteristics
Class and type Edgar-class ship of the line
Tons burthen128559⁄94 bm
Length
  • 154 ft 0 in (46.94 m) (gundeck)
  • 127 ft 0 in (38.71 m) (keel)
Beam43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
Depth of hold18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement420
Armament
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

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]

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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 a Pitre, Guadeloupe by a squadron, detached from Commodore Moore and commanded by Captain Wm. Harman of HMS Berwick on 14 February 1759. Showing Panther Pointe-a-Pitre, 1759 RCIN 732092.jpg
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
Battle of the Dutch ship Mars, against the English warships Monarch, Panther and Sybille (near Sint Eustatius Island, in the action of 4 February 1781 JONG(1807) - ZEEGEVECHT (near Sint Eustatius Island, 1781).jpg
Battle of the Dutch ship Mars, against the English warships Monarch, Panther and Sybille (near Sint Eustatius Island, in the action of 4 February 1781

Notes

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

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