Intrepid class ship of the line
HMS Diadem at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Class overview |
| Name: |
Intrepid |
| Operators: |
Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: |
Ardent-class |
| Succeeded by: |
Worcester-class |
| In service: |
4 December 1770 - 1827 |
| Completed: |
15 |
| Lost: |
3 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Ship of the line |
| Length: |
159 ft 6 in (48.62 m) (gundeck)
131 ft 0 in (39.93 m) (keel) |
| Beam: |
44 ft 4 in (13.51 m) |
| Depth of hold: |
19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Sails |
| Complement: |
500 officers and men (491 from 1794) |
| Armament: |
64 guns:
- Gundeck: 26 × 24 pounders
- Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs
- Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs
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| Notes: |
Ships in class include: Intrepid, Monmouth, Defiance, Nonsuch, Ruby, Vigilant, Eagle, America, Anson, Polyphemus, Magnanime, Sampson, Repulse, Diadem, Standard |
The Intrepid-class ships of the line were a class of fifteen 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams. His design, approved on 18 December 1765, was slightly smaller than Sir Thomas Slade's contemporary Worcester Class design of the same year, against which it was evaluated competitively. Following the prototype, four more ships were ordered in 1767-69, and a further ten between 1771 and 1779.
Ships
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 16 November 1765
- Laid down: January 1767
- Launched: 4 December 1770
- Completed: 31 January 1771
- Fate: Sold to be broken up at Plymouth, 26 March 1828
- Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 10 September 1767
- Laid down: May 1768
- Launched: 18 April 1772
- Completed: 9 May 1778
- Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth, January 1818
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 9 June 1768
- Laid down: October 1768
- Launched: 31 August 1772
- Completed: July 1778 at Portsmouth Dockyard
- Fate: Wrecked in the Savannah River, 15 February 1780
- Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 November 1769
- Laid down: January 1770
- Launched: 17 December 1774
- Completed: 25 April 1776
- Fate: Broken up at Sheerness, June 1802
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 November 1769
- Laid down: 9 September 1772
- Launched: 26 November 1776
- Completed: 27 February 1778
- Fate: Broken up at Bermuda, April 1821
- Builder: Henry & Anthony Adams, Bucklers Hard
- Ordered: 14 January 1771
- Laid down: February 1771
- Launched: 6 October 1774
- Completed: 11 July 1778 at Portsmouth Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth , April 1816
- Builder: John & William Wells, Rotherhithe
- Ordered: 14 January 1771
- Laid down: April 1771
- Launched: 12 May 1774
- Completed: 30 July 1776 at Woolwich Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham, October 1812
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 18 June 1771
- Laid down: October 1771
- Launched: 5 August 1777
- Completed: 29 March 1778
- Fate: Broken up, 1807
- Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 24 April 1773
- Laid down: January 1774
- Launched: 4 September 1781
- Completed: 15 October 1781
- Fate: Wrecked in Mounts Bay, 29 December 1807
- Builder: Sheerness Dockyard
- Ordered: 1 December 1773
- Laid down: Januaru 1776
- Launched: 27 April 1782
- Completed: 24 July 1782
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham, September 1827
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 16 October 1775
- Laid down: 23 August 1777
- Launched: 14 October 1780
- Completed: 29 December 1780 at Woolwich Dockyard.
- Fate: Broken up at Sheerness, July 1813
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 25 July 1776
- Laid down: 20 October 1777
- Launched: 8 May 1781
- Completed: 29 June 1781
- Fate: Sold to be broken up, 30 May 1832
- Builder: Robert Fabian, East Cowes
- Ordered: 5 February 1777
- Laid down: 12 January 1778
- Launched: 28 November 1780
- Completed: 15 February 1781 at Portsmouth Dockyard.
- Fate: Wrecked off Ushant, 10 March 1800
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 5 December 1777
- Laid down: 2 November 1778
- Launched: 19 December 1782
- Completed: 19 July 1783
- Fate: Broken up at Plymouth, September 1832
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 5 August 1779
- Laid down: May 1780
- Launched: 8 October 1782
- Completed: 19 December 1782 at Woolwich Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Sheerness, October 1816
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.
- Lyon, David (1993) The Sailing Navy List Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
- Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.