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

HMS Hector was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 May 1774 at Deptford.[2]

Career

HMS Hector and Bristol in distress during the Great Hurricane of 1780

On 10 January 1778 she captured French merchant ship "Thomas Koulican" (or Kouli Kan) at (46°00′N 09°00′W / 46.000°N 9.000°W / 46.000; -9.000).[3] On 9 May 1801 Hector, Kent, and Cruelle unsuccessfully chased the French corvette Heliopolis, which eluded them and slipped into Alexandria.[4]

Because Hector served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants.[Note 1]

Fate

Hector was converted for use as a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 179.
  3. ^ "NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF The American Revolution" (PDF). history.navy.mil. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  4. ^ James (1837), p.93.
  5. ^ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.

References


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