HMS Panther (1758)

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 & type	Edgar-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	128559⁄94 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

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]

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

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

References

• Lavery, Brian (1983). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN   0851772528.

External links

• Media related to HMS Panther (ship, 1758) at Wikimedia Commons