HMS Thunderer (1760)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Thunderer.
Model of a 74-gun ship, 3rd rate, circa 1760. Thought to be either HMS Hercules or HMS Thunderer from 1760.
Career (Great Britain)
Name: HMS Thunderer
Ordered: 15 July 1756
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 19 March 1760
Fate: Wrecked, 1780
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:Hercules-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:1609 tons (1634.8 tonnes)
Length:166 ft 6 in (50.75 m) (gundeck)
Beam:46 ft 6 in (14.17 m)
Depth of hold:19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:Sails
Sail plan:Full rigged ship
Armament:74 guns:
  • Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarter deck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich.[1] She earned a battle honour in a single-ship action off Cadiz with the French ship Achille (64 guns) in 1761, during the Seven Years' War.

She foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies in 1780.[1]

Among the lost sailors were Midshipman Nathaniel Cook (1764-1780), the second child of Captain James Cook.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.

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.