HMS Centaur (1759)

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Career (France) French Royal Navy Ensign
Name: Centaure
Launched: 1757
Captured: 18 August 1759, by Royal Navy
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Centaur
Acquired: 18 August 1759
Fate: Wrecked, 1782
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1739 tons (1766.9 tonnes)
Length: 175 ft 8 in (53.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 5 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 74 guns of various weights of shot
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Centaur and French ship Centaure.

Centaure was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1757.

She was captured at the Battle of Lagos[2] by the Royal Navy on 18 August 1759, and commissioned as the third rate HMS Centaur.[1]

In September of 1782, the Centaur was one of the ships escorting prizes back to Britain from Jamaica, when she foundered during a severe gale near the Newfoundland Banks. Captain Ingleford, along with eleven of his crew, survived the wreck in one of the ship's pinnaces, arriving at the Azores after 16 days.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p178.
  2. ^ a b Ships of the Old Navy, Centaur.

[edit] 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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