HMS Vengeance (1774)

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History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Vengeance
Ordered	14 January 1771
Builder	Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid down	April 1771
Launched	25 June 1774
Fate	Broken up, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type	Royal Oak-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1626 37⁄94 (bm))
Length	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
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;

Last updated November 26, 2022

HMS Vengeance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 June 1774 at Rotherhithe.^[1] By 1780, she was at the island of Martinique, and was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780 ^[2] but recovered and made her way to Portsmouth to be repaired. Finished in 1803, the ship was put into reserve before becoming a prison ship in the year 1808.

She was broken up in 1816.^[1]

Citations and notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228): 78 v. 29 December 1780.

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References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p179-1] 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.

[2] "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228): 78 v. 29 December 1780.

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