HMS Terrible (1785)

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NameHMS Terrible
Ordered13 December 1781
BuilderWells, Rotherhithe
Laid down7 January 1783
Launched28 March 1785
FateBroken up, 1836
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Culloden-class ship of the line
Tons burthen16791794 (bm) )
Length170 ft (52 m) (gundeck)
Beam47 ft 2 in (14.38 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 11 in (6.07 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1785 at Rotherhithe. [1]

In December 1813 she was paid off and placed in ordinary at Sheerness Dockyard. She remained out of service until 1829, other than a nine-month period between August 1822 and May 1823 when she acted as a receiving ship for volunteers and pressed men. From 1829 to 1836 she served as a coal depot for Navy steamships. Declared surplus even to this limited requirement, she was brought to Deptford Dockyard and broken up in March 1836. [2]

Citations and notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 180.
  2. Winfield 2007, p.83

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