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

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. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 179.
  2. ^ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228): 78 v. 29 December 1780.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vengeance_(1774)
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