| Career (France) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Vengeance |
| Builder: | Saint-Malo |
| Launched: | 1757 |
| Captured: | By the Royal Navy on 8 January 1758 |
| Career (Great Britain) | |
| Name: | HMS Vengeance |
| Acquired: | 8 January 1758 |
| Fate: | Scuttled as a breakwater in October 1766 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 28-gun sixth rate |
| Tons burthen: | 533 8/94 bm |
| Length: | 116 ft 11 in (35.6 m) (overall) 95 ft 8 in (29.2 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 4 in (9.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft 3.5 in (3.44 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 |
| Armament: |
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HMS Vengeance was a 28-gun sixth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been a French privateer under the same name until her capture in 1758 during the Seven Years' War.
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Vengeance was built in 1757 at Saint-Malo.[1] She was captured off the Lizard on 8 January 1758 by HMS Hussar, under the command of Captain John Elliot, and was brought into Plymouth. An Admiralty order was issued, authorising her purchase into the navy on 11 March 1758, and she was duly acquired on 21 June that year for the sum of £2,151.3.0d.[1] She was officially named the following day, and was fitted at Plymouth between August and September 1758 for the sum of £1,619.18.6d.[1]
Vengeance was first commissioned on 27 October 1758 under the command of Captain Gamaliel Nightingale, for service in the Irish Sea.[1] She came under the command of Lieutenant Joseph Hunt, in an acting capacity, in January 1759, and was used in the impressment service that year. She joined Commodore Robert Duff's squadron in October 1759, and was part of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke's fleet at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759.[1] The following year she scored a success against privateers, capturing the letter-of-marque Comte de Nancy on 6 April 1760.[1]
Vengeance departed for Quebec on 22 June 1760, but was back in Britain by September.[1][2] Her success against privateers continued into 1761; she captured the Minerve on 27 January, and Tigre on 23 March.[1] Also on 23 March she captured the letter-of-marque Entreprenant, pierced for 44 guns, but armed en flûte.[1][2] Vengeance captured the 12-gun privateer Auguste, of La Rochelle, on 5 April, and was paid off in June 1761. She was surveyed on 8 August 1763, and again on 26 August 1766.[1] This time an admiralty order was issued on 4 September for her to be fitted as a breakwater, and she was scuttled at Plymouth in October.[1]