HMS Prudent (1768)

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Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svgGreat Britain
NameHMS Prudent
Ordered7 January 1762
BuilderWoolwich Dockyard
Launched28 September 1768
Honours and
awards
Participated in: Battle of St. Kitts
FateSold out of the service, 1814
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Exeter-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1367 (bm)
Length158 ft 9 in (48.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam44 ft (13.4 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 1 in (5.8 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Prudent was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1768 at Woolwich. [1]

She is listed as being on harbour service in 1779, [1] though she was back in regular service later in the American Revolutionary War as in 1782 she participated in the Battle of St. Kitts. [2]

Prudent was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands. [3]


Prudent was sold out of the service in 1814. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p178.
  2. Schomberg, Isaac (1802). Naval Chronology:or, An Historical Summary of Naval & Maritime Events, From the Time of the Romans, to the Treaty of Peace, 1802. London: T. Egerton by C. Roworth. p.  398.
  3. "No. 15407". The London Gazette . 15 September 1801. p. 1145.

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