HMS Vengeance (1774)

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.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Vengeance.

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History
UK
Name: HMS Vengeance
Ordered: 14 January 1771
Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid down: April 1771
Launched: 25 June 1774
Fate: Broken up, 1816
General characteristics [1]
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

She became a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816.[1]

Citations and notes
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
  2. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228). 29 December 1780.

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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