HMS Vengeance (1774)

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Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg Great Britain
NameHMS Vengeance
Ordered14 January 1771
Builder Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid downApril 1771
Launched25 June 1774
FateBroken up, 1816
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Royal Oak-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1626 37⁄94 (bm))
Length168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold20 ft (6.1 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 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. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 179.
  2. ↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228): 78 v. 29 December 1780.

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