HMS Prudent (1768)

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

History
UK
Name:	HMS Prudent
Ordered:	7 January 1762
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched:	28 September 1768
Honours and awards:	Participated in: Battle of St. Kitts
Fate:	Sold out of the service, 1814
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Exeter-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1367 (bm)
Length:	158 ft 9 in (48.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft (13.4 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 1 in (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
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

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 sold out of the service in 1814.[1]

Notes

1. 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.

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.