HMS Trident (1768)

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Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg Great Britain
NameHMS Trident
Ordered4 December 1762
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Launched20 April 1768
FateSold out of the service, 1816
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Exeter-class ship of the line
Tons burthen13668694 (bm)
Length158 ft 9 in (48.39 m) (gundeck)
Beam44 ft (13 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 1 in (5.82 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 Trident was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 April 1768 at Portsmouth. [1] On 30 January 1772 in Gibraltar harbour during a severe winter storm the Danish ship-of-the-line Prinsesse Wilhelmine Caroline dragged its anchor, colliding with the bow of HMS Trident before running aground. [2]

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From April until June 1778 she was under the command of John Inglis.

For some of the period between 1793 and 1796, she was under the command of Captain Theophilus Jones. [3]

Trident was sold out of the navy in 1816. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p178.
  2. Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 p 114
  3. The United Service Magazine. 1836. pp. 95–6. Retrieved 6 July 2014.

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