Third Rate ships of 74 guns.

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HMS Montagu (1779)





HMS Montagu by Serres, Dominic.



HMS Montagu was a 74-gun Alfred Class third rateship of the line,designed by Sir John Williams and ordered on the 16th of July, 1774. Built at Chatham dockyard by M/shipwright Israel Pownoll until the April of1779 and then completed by Nicholas Phillips. She was launched on the 28th of August, 1779.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Montagu
Ordered:	16 July 1774
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	30 January 1775
Launched:	28 August 1779
Fate:	Broken up, 1818
Notes:	·Participated in: ·Battle of Cape St Vincent ·Glorious First of June
General characteristics
Class and type:	Alfred-classship of the line
Tons burthen:	1631 (bm)
Length:	169 ft (51.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 2 in (14.4 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft (6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Montagu was commissioned in the August of 1779.
Her first action was on the 16^th of January.1780 when she took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent. , under Captain John Houlton. She suffered no losses during the battle.


She was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780 in the Antilles, but recovered.


She was paid off in 1782 after wartime service.


Between the November of 1782 and the June of 1783 she underwent repairs at Portsmouth.


She was not recommissioned until the February of 1793 under Captain James Montagu and then joined Admiral Howe’s fleet. On the 1^st of June 1794 she took part in te battle of The Glorious First of June off Ushant. In this action she lost 4 killed, including Montagu, and 13 wounded. After the battle Lt Ross Donnelly became acting captain for a short period. Later in 1794 she came under the command of Captain William Fooks and sailed for the Leeward Islands on the 25^th of October in that year. On the 30^th of October Montague and Ganges captured the French corvette Le Jacobine. Jacobine was armed with twenty-four 12-pounder guns, and had a crew of 220 men; she was only nine days out of Brest and had taken no prizes. The Royal Navy took Jacobin into service as HMS Matilda.

Paid off in November 1795 for a small repair she recommissioned in the August of 1796 under Captain John knight.

At the Battle of Camperdown, on the 11^th of October 1797, in the Lee Division, Montagu, still under John Knight’s command, suffered slight damage and had three men killed and five wounded.

On the 2^nd of June in the following year she sailed for the Med, where she remained until the end of 1779 under the command of Captain Charles Patterson.

In 1801 under Captain Robert Cuthbert she sailed for Jamaica. In the March of that year under Captain Edmond Nagle in Calder’s squadron, Montagu was in hot pursuit of Ganteaume’s squadron.

After her return to Portsmouth between the January of 1802 and the March of 1803 she was undergoing major repairs.I suspect from this painting below that she had been involved in a great storm which would account for the time spent in dock, but only have the above reference to her repairs to go upon.
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The situation of H.M. Ship Montagu at 10 mins after 12 o'clock on the night of the 13th February 1801 off Cape Ortagol


Recommissioned in the March of 1803 under Captain Robert Otway, she took part in the blockade of Brest, and the attempt on the French Fleet on the 21^st of August, 1803.


She was in Strachan’s squadron from May to September 1806, and then refitted at Portsmouth from May to June 1807. From here, as the Flagship of Rear Admiral George Martin she sailed for the Med on the 3^rd of June.

In 1809 she was still in the Med now commanded by Captain Richard Moubray, and then in 1811 by Captain John Halliday.

After a small repair and refit for Foreign service at Chatham between the December of that year and the April of 1812, she was placed under the command of Captain Manley Hall Dixon, as Flagship of Rear Admiral Manley Dixon and sailed for South America on the15th of May of that year.She served in Brazil until 1813 , and then in the North sea from the July of that year under Captain Peter Heywood, and afterwards in the Mediterranean under Lord Exmouth, until July 1816 when she was paid off and laid up at Chatham.


Fate.


Montagu was broken up there in 1818.

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HMS Orion (1787)

Model of HMS Orion at the Vancouver Maritime Museum

HMS Orion was a Canada-class 74-gun third rateship of the line, designed by William Batley. Ordered on the 2^nd of October, 1782, M/shipwright William Barnard. She was launched at Deptford on the first of June, 1787.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Orion
Ordered:	2 October 1782
Builder:	Barnard, Deptford
Laid down:	February 1783
Launched:	1 June 1787
Honours and awards:	·Participated in: ·Glorious First of June ·Battle of Groix ·Battle of Cape St. Vincent ·Battle of the Nile ·Battle of Trafalgar
Fate:	Broken up, 1814
General characteristics
Class and type:	Canada classship of the line
Tons burthen:	1646 (bm)
Length:	170 ft (52 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Completed on the 1^st of November 1787 she was fitted as a guardship at Plymouth and commissioned in the July of 1788 under Captain Andrew Southerland. Continuing as a guardship from 1789 until the end of the Spanish armament under Captain Charles Chamberlayne , she was recommissioned in the September of 1791 under Captain john Duckworth sailing for the Leeward Islands in the March of 1793.She took the privateer Le Sans-Culotte off the American coast on the 25^th of August of that year before returning to home waters.

On the first of June,1794 she fought in Howe’s Fleet at the Glorious First of June , still under Captain Duckworth, suffering three killed but no wounded.

In early 1795, Captain James Saumarez was appointed to the command of Orion. She took part in Bridport’s defeat of the French fleet at the Battle of Groix off Lorient on the 23^rd of June, and also at the blockades of Brest and Rochefort.
Having been refitted at Portsmouth, Orion sailed for the Med on the 4^th of January, 1797. she joined the Mediterranean Fleet and distinguished herself at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent on the14th of February, losing only 9 men wounded. She then took part in the blockade of Cadiz from the March of 1797 until the April of 1798, when she was dispatched to the Med once again as part of a small squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson. On the 1^st of August of that year, Nelson finally caught up with the French fleet, resulting in the Battle of the Nile. Orion lost 13 killed and 29 wounded of which Captain Saumarez was one.

Paid off in 1799 for a refit at Plymouth she was recommissioned in the March of 1801. Between the 31^st of March. 1801 and the 10^th of July, 1802, the Surgeon's First Mate on board the Orion was Henry Plowman. On the 15^th of January, 1802, whilst still on board the Orion, anchored at Spithead, he wrote his will which is witnessed by his Captain, Robert Cuthbert.

After a refit at Portsmouth between the April and July of 1805, Orion was recommissioned under Captain Edward Codrington and joined Nelson’s fleet off Cadiz.

On October the 21st, she took part in the Battle of Trafalgar where, in the lee column to the rear of Agamemnon and Ajax and with the aid of the latter ship she forced the surrender of the French 74-gun ship Intrépide. Her casualties incurred during the battle totalled only one killed and 23 wounded.


After Trafalgar, Orion continued in the blockade of Cadiz, and on the 25^th of November, HMS Thundererr captured the Ragusan ship Nemesis, sailing from the Isle de France to Leghorn, Italy, with a cargo of spices, Indigo dye, plus other general merchandise. Being in sight of the action, Orion took a share in the prize money along with ten other Royal Naval ships.

In the December of 1806 Orion came under the command of Captain Sir Archibald Dixon, and under him she was at the Second battle of Copenhagen in the August of 1807, having sailed in Admiral Gambier’s Squadron.

Fate.

From 1808 to 1809 she served both in the Baltic and North Sea as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Bertie.

Paid off from this service in the January of 1814,Orion was broken up at Pmouth in the July of that year.

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HMS Powerful (1783)



HMS Powerful was a Revised Elizabeth Class 74 gun third rateship of the line, designed by Sir Thomas Slade, ordered on the 8^th of July, 1780 and built by Perry and Co. at Blackwall. She was launched on the 3^rd of April, 1783.






Plan of HMS Powerful

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Powerful
Ordered:	8 July 1780
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall Yard
Laid down:	April 1781
Launched:	3 April 1783
Fate:	Broken up 1812
General characteristics
Class and type:	Revised Elizabeth-classship of the line
Tons burthen:	1627 (bm)
Length:	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	46 ft (14 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Career.



Powerful was commissioned shortly after launching during the April of 1783 under Captain Thomas Fitzherbert.



By 1785, her crew included John Lyddiard, an American prisoner of war forcibly enlisted into the Royal Navy in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. In July 1785, Lyddiard wrote to the United States ambassador to Britain, John Adams, to secure Lyddiard's release. In response to an appeal by Adams, the British government ordered the release of Lyddiard.



Paid off in late 1785 she was recommissioned in the May of 1786,under Captain Andrew Southerland as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves.



Between the May of 1788 and March of 1789 she was in for repairs at Plymouth.



Recommissioned under Captain Thomas Hicks, On the 15^th of January 1794 she sailed for Jamaica under Captain William Otway. Paid off in the the August of that year, she recommissioned under Captain Richard Fisher, and then under Captain William O’Bryen Drury from August 1795 until 1799 . Under O’Bryen she took part in the battle of Camperdown on the 11^th of October,1797. Fighting in the Lee column during the battle, she suffered 10 killed and 78 wounded.




Powerful at the Battle of Camperdown 1797, by Nicholas Pocock



Following the battle the ship the ship was refitted at Plymouth before sailing for Med on the 2^nd of June,1798.



Having been refitting from the March to the August 1805, and now under the command of Captain Robert Pamplin, Powerful arrived too late to take part in the Battle of Trafalgar, In the November of that year she was with Duckworth’s Squadron off Cadiz, and then in early 1806 the Med, before being detached to reinforce the East India squadron.

On the 13^th of June, 1806 she captured the French privateer Henriette off Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Powerful had received intelligence of her presence in the area and set out from Trincomalee on the 11th. Powerful sighted Henriette on the morning of the 13th. After an 11-hour chase, during which Henriette fired her stern guns without any effect. Powerful succeeded in catching her quarry, which surrendered forthwith. During the chase, Henriette's crew had cast four of her 6-pounder guns overboard in an effort to lighten her and thus gain speed. Head money was finally paid for Henriette in the January of 1814.

In an Action of the 9^th of July, 1806, cruising off Ceylon in the guise of an East Indiaman, accompanied by the sloop Rattlesnake, she took the privateer La Bellone, who had been causing serious mischief amongst the British merchantmen in the area. She then joined Pellew’s Squadron off Jarva on the 27^th of November of that year.
In the December of 1807 Powerful was placed under the acting command of Pellew’s son Lieutenant Fleetwood Pellew at Sourabaya. In 1808 she returned to the Cape of Good Hope, and by February 1809 she was back in the North Sea under Captain Charles Johnson at Walcheren.

Fate.



Following the failure of the Walcheren operations she was paid off.
Powerful was broken up at Chatham in the May of 1812.

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HMS Ramillies (1785)



HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun Modified Culloden Class third rateship of the line, modified from Slade’s design. Ordered on the 19^th of February 1782, built by Randall and Brent at Rotherhithe, she was launched on the 12^th of July, 1785.






Hull plan of HMS Ramillies

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Ramillies
Ordered:	19 January 1782
Builder:	Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	December 1782
Launched:	12 July 1785
Fate:	Broken up, February 1850
General characteristics
Class and type:	Modified Culloden-classship of the line
Tons burthen:	​1677 17⁄94 (bm)
Length:	170 ft 4 in (51.92 m) (gundeck); 1,390 ft 9 in (423.90 m) (keel)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 11 1⁄2 in (6.083 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

French Revolutionary Wars.



After a small repair at Chatham between the August and December of 1791 Ramilies was commissioned under Captain Henry Harvey in the February of 1793. In the Battle of the Glorious First of June off Ushant in 1794, she lost only 2killed and 7 wounded. In the August of that year under Captain Sir Richard Bickerton she sailed for the West Indies Leeward Islands. On her return to England in the February of 1796 for a refit at Portsmouth, Ramilies was soon in action once more bound for North Sea duty, when on the 4^thof April, she ran down and sank the hired armedluggerSpider in a collision whilst manoeuvring.
Next came her involvement in the mutiny at Spithead from the April to May of 1797. By July she was off to the Channel and then the Irish station under Captain Bartholomew Rowley.

In the October of 1798 she came under Commander Henry Inman, and then in the February of 1799, Captain Richard Grindall for the Quiberon operation.



In the January of 1801 Ramilies came under the command of Captain John. W.T. Dixon as part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen, and thus took no active part in the battle.



In the June of that year she came under the command of Captain Sir Robert Barlow and then in the August Captain Samuel Osborne and thence to the Channel and Spanish coast before paying off.
Recommissioned in the December of 1804 under Captain Francis Pickmore, on the 7^th of July 1805 in company with HMS Illustrious she took the 2 gun Privateer La Josephine.


Expedition to the Danish West Indies.



On the 10^th of January,1807 Ramillies sailed to the Leeward Islands in the West Indies as part of a squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, who sailed in HMS Belleisle. The squadron, which included HMS Prince George, HMS Northumberland, HMS Canada and HMS Cerberus, captured the Telemaco, Carvalho and Master on 17 April 1807.



Following the concern in Britain that neutral Denmark was entering an alliance with Napoleon, in December Ramillies participated in Cochrane's expedition that captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless. In the April of 1808 Ramillies came under the command of Captain Robert Yarker and then having returned to home waters, from the July of 1810 until the November of 1812 underwent a large repair at Chatham.



War of 1812.

Recommissioned under Captain Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy Ramillies sailed for North America in the August of 1812, at the outbreak of the war. Hardy led the fleet in the ship which provided the escort for the army commanded by John Coape Sherbrooke, capturing significant portions of eastern coastal Massachusetts, including Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Machias, Bangor, and Castine.



As the flagship of Rear Admiral George Cockburn, on the 4^th of December 1813 Ramilies and HMS Lorie recaptured the whalerPolicy, J.Bowman, master, which the United States Navy had previously taken in the South Pacific. Her liberators dispatched Policy to Halifax in Nova Scotia.



Following these triumphs, Ramillies suffered a reverse, when on the 10^th of August, 1814, a landing party from her was defeated at Stonington, Connecticut. The men were to have burned Stonington Borough and the shipping, but they were repulsed by a superior force of the enemy.



During the Battle of North Point, a composite battalion of Royal Marines were landed from HMS Tonnant, HMS Ramillies, HMS Albion, and HMS Royal Oak, under the command of Brevet Major John Robyns. The only two fatalities were from HMS Ramillies.



Post-war.



In June 1815 Ramillies was under the command of Captain Charles Ogle. In November, Captain Thomas Boys replaced Ogle, while Rear-Admiral Sir William Hope raised his flag in her at Leith.
Fitted as a guardship at Sheerness in the June of 1816, by the September of 1818 Ramillies was at Portsmouth doing the same duty under Captain Askew Hollis., HMS Viper being employed as her tender. On the 30^th of November, 1820 and 6 February 1821, Viper made some captures, presumably of smugglers, which resulted in a payment of prize money not only to the officers and crew of Viper, but also to those of Ramillies.



In the August of 1821, Ramillies came under the command of Captain Edward Brace and served in the Downs on the Coastal Blockade. She then underwent repairs between the May of 1822 and the June of1823, and was fitted for a guardship at Portsmouth again. In the May of 1823 Captain William M'Cullock took command and then In the November of 1825 Captain Hugh Pigot ,in turn, replaced M'Cullock. The Admiralty ordered Ramillies to the Reserve for Harbour Service in 1830, and Ramillies was on harbour service from early in 1831.

Fate.


In the June of that year, Ramillies was at Chatham Dockyard, being fitted as a lazaretto, a hospital for quarantine. She then moved to Sheerness to serve in that capacity there. Ramillies was eventually broken up at Sheerness in the February of 1850.

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HMS Resolution (1770)

HMS Resolution was a 74-gun Elizabeth Class third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 16^th of September, 1766 , designed by Sir Thomas Slade, M/shipwright Adam Hayes. She was launched on the 12^th of April, 1770 at Deptford Dockyard.




Resolution

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:		HMS Resolution
Ordered:		16 September 1766
Builder:		Adam Hayes,Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:		July 1767
Launched:		12 April 1770
Honours and awards:		·Participated in: ·Battle of Cape St Vincent ·Battle of the Chesapeake ·Battle of the Saintes
Fate:		Broken up, 1813
General characteristics
Class and type:	Elizabeth-classship of the line
Tons burthen:	1612 (bm)
Length:	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	46 ft (14 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Resolution was commissioned in the December of 1770 for the Falkland Islands dispute as a guardship on the Medway.
Then fitted as a guardship at Sheerness in the March of 1772. Fitted and coppered at Portsmouth in 1779.

She participated in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent on the 16^th of January (1780), under Captain Sir Chalanor Ogle with no fatalities recorded. the Battle of the Chesapeake on the 5^th of September,1781 in the centre, under Captain Lord Robert Manners, losing 3 killed and 16 wounded. At the Battle of the Saintes, between the 9^th and 12^th of April 1782 she was still under the command of Lord Robert Manners, Resolution was in the centre of the line and saw heavy action suffering 4 killed and 34 wounded, including Lord Robert Manners himself . During the battle one of Manners' arms was broken, and both legs wounded, one so severely that it required amputation. Being of a strong constitution, it was hoped he might survive, and he was sent back to England aboard the Frigate Andromache. However, tetanus set in, and he died on the 23^rd of April, and was buried at sea.





The Death of Lord Robert Manners (1782) on HMS Resolution


Resolutionwas paid off in the July of that year after wartime service. She underwent middling repairs at Chatham between the March of 1783 and the July of 1784.

She was not finally recommissioned until the July of 1793 under Captain James Cumming. In 1794 under Captain Francis Pender she served as Flagship to Rear Admiral Sir George Murray and sailed for Halifax on the 18^th of May in that year. Then in the August of 1797 under Captain William Lechmere she became the Flagship of Vice Admiral George Vandeput still on the Halifax station. She was paid off in the October of 1798. Recommissioned in the July of 1799 under Captain William Mitchell for Channel service, and coming under Captain Alan Hyde Gardner in the December of that year.

Involved in the Mutiny at Bantry in 1801, she was paid off in 1802, Fitted and Doubled at Chatham between the May of 1805 and the March of 1806,she was recommissioned under Captain George Burlton, and then had her diagonal braces removed at Sheerness in the December of that year.

Her next commission was with the Copenhagen expedition in the August of 1807, after which she sailed for Portugal in the November of1808, and was at Corunna in the January of 1808. In the April of 1809 she took part in the Basque Roads operation. Coming under Captain William Ward in the July of 1809 she was involved in the Scheldt operation.

Fate.

During 1810 she served in the Baltic under Captain Temple Hardy and then went into Ordinary at Portsmouth in 1812.

Resolution was broken up there in the March of 1813.

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HMS Robust.



HMS Robust was a 74-gun Ramillies Class third-rateship of the line ,designed by Sir Thomas Slade, M/shipwright John Barnard and John Turner. She was ordered on the16th of December, 1761 and launched on 25 October 1764 at Harwich. She was the first vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name.



Plan of Robust

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Robust
Ordered:	16 December 1761
Builder:	Barnard, Harwich
Launched:	25 October 1764
Fate:	Broken up, 1817
Notes:	Harbour service from 1812
General characteristics
Class and type:		Ramillies-classship of the line
Tons burthen:		1624 bm
Length:		168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		46 ft 11 in (14.30 m)
Depth of hold:		19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns ·QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns ·

Service.

After undergoing a small repair between the May of 1774 and the January of 1775 Robust was first commissioned in the December of 1777 under Captain Alexander Arthur Hood and fitted at Chatham in the March of 1778.


On the 27^th of July, 1778 she was at the Battle of Ushant in Palliser's division of the fleet. Her captain, Alexander Hood, took Palliser's side in the subsequent court martial known as "the Keppel affair".
She was paid off after wartime service in the September of 1782.Between 1783 and 1784 she underwent repairs at Chatham and was not recommissioned until the October of 1787 under Captain William Cornwallis but paid off in the December of that year. Recommissioned in the July of 1790 under Captain Howland Cotton she again paid off in the September of 1791 without seeing any further distinctive action.


However, when next commissioned in the January of 1793 under Captain George Elphinstone ,Robust sailed to join Lord Hood’s Fleet in the Med on the 22^nd of May in that year.


She was part of the fleet under Hood that occupied Toulon during August . Together with HMS Courageux, Meleager, Tartar and Egmont, on the 27^th of the month she covered the landings of 1500 troops sent to oust the republicans holding the forts including, Fort La Malague on the 28^th of August which guarded the port. Once the forts had fallen, the remainder of Hood's fleet, accompanied by 17 Spanish ships-of-the-line who had just arrived, sailed into the harbour.
Under the temporary command of Captain Benjamin Hallowell she was also involved in the evacuation of the port in the December of the year.
In 1794 she came under the command of Captain Christopher Parker and then Captain Edward Thornbrough with Warren’s squadron in the June of 1795 for the Quiberon operations.


Robust was next in the North Sea in 1796, and then got caught up in the Spithead mutiny of 1797. In the October of that year she refitted at Portsmouth. By the January of 1798 she had made good her defects and by the October of that year she was in action in Sir John Warren’s squadron against Bompart. On the 12^th of October she captured the French ship Hoche.


March 1799 saw her in action under Captain George Countess in an attack on a Spanish squadron sheltering in the Basque Roads.
In 1800 she briefly came under the command of Captain William Brown and later under Captain John Acworth Ommanney.


By the May of 1801 she was under Captain the Hon Henry Curzon, and later in the year, Captain William Ricketts.


On the 21^st of July, the boats of Robust, Beaulieu, Uranie and Doris succeeded in boarding and cutting out the French naval corvette Chevrette, which was armed with 20 guns and had 350 men on board having been placed on board in the expectation of an attack. Also, Chevrette was protected by the batteries of the Bay of Cameret. The hired armedcutterTelemachus placed herself in the Goulet and thereby prevented the French from bringing reinforcements by boat to Chevrette. The action was a sanguinary one. The British lost 11 men killed, 57 wounded, and one missing; Chevrette lost 92 officers, seamen and troops killed, including her first captain, and 62 seamen and troops wounded. In 1847 the Admiralty finally awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "21 July Boat Service 1801" to surviving men who had served in the action.


Fate.


In the April of 1802, still under Ricketts’ command, Robust sailed for Jamaica as the Flagship of Admiral Jervis but by the July of that year she had been paid off and was being fitted as a receiving ship at Portsmouth. From 1807 to 1814 she was placed in ordinary there, and was broken up in the January of 1817.

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HMS Royal Oak (1769)



HMS 'Royal Oak', 1773-1775. By Marshall Joseph

HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rateship of the line, The named ship for its class designed by Sir John Williams with less sharp bows than the typical Slade design. Ordered on the 16th of November 1765, her M/shipwright was Israel Pownoll for the Plymouth Dockyard. She was launched on the 13th of November, 1769 at Plymouth.

GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Royal Oak
Ordered:	16 November 1765
Builder:	Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down:	May 1766
Launched:	13 November 1769
Fate:	Broken up, 1815
Notes:	·Participated in: ·Battle of the Chesapeake
General characteristics
Class and type:	Royal Oak- class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1606 ​21⁄94 (bm)
Length:	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs ·Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

History.

Commissioned in the November of 1770 for the Falkland Islands dispute, Royal Oakwas refitted as a guardship at Plymouth in 1771 and yearly thereafter until 1778, she was one of the ships reviewed by King George on his visit to Portsmouth in the June of 1773.


George III reviewing the Fleet at Spithead, 22 June 1773, depicting HMS 'Royal Oak'

Refitted and coppered at Portsmouth between the January and March of 1780, she fought at the Battle of the Chesapeake on the 5th of September 1781 under Captain John Plumer Ardesoif. During the battle she suffered 4 killed and 5 wounded.
She was paid off again, in the June of 1783 following wartime service.

Fate.

Royal Oak was converted for use as a prison ship at Portsmouth in the November of 1796, She then went through a series of commissioning under various Lieutenants commencing with Stephen Liddle in the July of 1803 and concluding in the September of 1805 under Lieutenant James M’Arthur. At this juncture she was renamed Assistance and came under Lieutenant Thomas Sherwin from 1806 to 1807. Then Commodore Hugh Downman from 1808 to 1811, and finally Captain Robert Mends from 1812 to 1813. After this she went into ordinary in 1814, and was broken up at Portsmouth on the 2nd of November, 1815.