Third Rate 64 gun ships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Scipio (1782)

HMS Scipio was an Edward Hunt designed Crown Class 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by William Barnard at Deptford. Ordered on the 11th of November 1779, laid down in the January of 1780, se was launched on the 22nd of October, 1782 and completed between the November of that year and the 15th of January 1783 at Woolwich.


Plan of the orlop deckdeck of Scipio
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History
Great Britain
Name:		HMS Scipio
Ordered:		11 November 1779
Builder:		Barnard, Deptford
Laid down:		January 1780
Launched:		22 October 1782
Fate:		Broken up, 1798
General characteristics
Class and type:	64-gun Crown Class third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1401 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 8 in (48.90 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 8.75 in (13.67 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 5 in (5.880 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Scipio was commissioned in the October of 1782 and fitted for Channel service at Sheerness in the September of 1783, where she was recommissioned as a guardship in the April of 1784.Refitted at Chatham for £4604.17.8d she remained a guardship in theMedway until 1789.

Fitted at Chatham, and recommissioned under Captain Thomas Pasley in the March of 1790 for the Spanish Armament, in the August of that year she came under the command of Captain Edward Thornbrough.

Scipio returned to chatham for repairs between theApril of 1794 and the May of 1795 at a cost of £8.805.Having been Recommissioned in the November of 1794 under Captain Mark Robinson, in the January of 1795 she came under the command of Captain Richard fisher and in the following month Captain Robert M’Dougall and sailed for the Leeward Islands on the 8th of August in that year. In the March of 1796 she came under Captain Francis Laforey, and then exactly a year later Captain Charles Davers. In the September of that year she returned to England and was paid off in the December.

Fate.

She was broken up at Chatham in the October of 1798.

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HMS STANDARD (1782)

HMS Standard was the last of the 15 Inreepid Class 64 gun third rate ships of the line built to a design by John Williams, and built by m/shipwright Adam Hayes at Deptford dockyard. Ordered on the 5th of August 1779, she was laid down in the May of 1780, and launched on the 8th of October, 1782. The ship was completed at Woolwich between the 18th of October and the19th of December in that year, her total cost amounting to £34,347.11.4d.


Plan of Standard

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:		HMS Standard
Ordered:		5 August 1779
Builder:		Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:		May 1780
Launched:		8 October 1782
Fate:		Broken up, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Intrepid Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1369 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 6 in (48.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 4 in (13.5 m)
Depth of hold: Draught:	19 ft (5.8 m) 12ft 2in x 17ft 1 in
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Standard was commissioned under Captain William Dickson in the September of 1782, and recommissioned in March 1783 as a guardship at Plymouth, and fitted for this role in the September of that year. She was paid off in the September of 1786, and recommissioned in the same month for the same duty, under Captain Charles Chamberlyane. She was next paid off in the February of 1788.

She was next fitted at Plymouth between the February and June of 1795 for £12,490, recommissioned under Captain Joseph Ellison, for Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren’s squadron, and dispatched forthwith for the Quiberon operations which conclueded in the September of that year. On the 28th of February, 1796 Standard sailed for the East Indies, temporarily under the command of Captain H Lukin. By the October of that year she was back in the North Sea. In the February of 1797 she was under Captain Thomas Parr, and then in the September of that same year Captain Thomas Shivers. From mid April to mid May, Standard was involved in the Nore Mutiny. On the 5th of May her crew had taken over the ship and trained cannon on officer’s enraged over the issue of the dilatory practice of payment in arrears. After the mutiny collapsed, William Wallis, one of the leaders on Standard, shot himself to avoid trial and hanging. William Redfern, her surgeon's mate, was sentenced to death for his role in the mutiny, which was later commuted to transportation for life to the colony of New South Wales. Order having been thus restored she was paid off in the December of that year.

She was recommissioned in February 1799 as a prison ship at Sheerness under lieutenant Thomas Pamp. In November she was fitted as a convalescent ship at Chatham. One month later she was recommissioned under Lieutenant Jacques Dalby as a hospital ship at Sheerness.

Between March and May 1801 Standard was refitted at Chatham, for the sum of £15,110. as a 64 gun ship once more, being commissioned during this time in the April of that year under Captain Charles Stewart, for service in the North Sea. She was paid off in the April of 1802, repaired by Barnard and Co. at Deptford, refitted at various times, and recommissioned in August 1805 under Captain Thomas Harvey, who would remain in command until 1808, and then sailed for the Eastern Mediterranean in order to join Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Louis’s squadron.

During 1807, whilst based in the Med, she took part in Vice admiral Sir John Duckworth’s unsuccessful operation in the Dardanelles On the 19th of February; Standard suffered three crewmen wounded while forcing the passage.


Duckworth's squadron forcing the Dardanelles.

Near a redoubt at Port Pesquies the British encountered a Turkish squadron of one ship of 64 guns, four frigates and eight other vessels, most of which they ran aground. Marines from HMS Pompee spiked the 31 guns on the redoubt, and Standard aided by Thunderer destroyed three Turkish frigates which had run ashore. On the 27th of that month Standard had two men wounded assisting a Royal Marine landing party on the island of Prota.
During their retirement, the British squadron were subjected to fire from the Turkish castle at Abydos. Granite cannonballs weighing 700–800 pounds and measuring well over 6 ft in circumference smote the Active, Standard, and Windsor Castle. the shot itself killing four men aboard Standard. It also started a fire and explosion which led to four seamen jumping overboard. In total, Standard lost four dead, 47 wounded, and four missing (believed drowned). In all, the British ships suffered 29 killed and 138 wounded.

On the 26th of March, 1808, cruising off Cape Blanco, Standard, accompanied by the 38 gun frigate Active, captured the Franco-Italian 18 gun Brig, Friedland. After a chase lasting several hours Captain Richard Mowbray of Active took possession of the Brig. Had she not had the misfortune to lose her topmast, she might well have made her escape. Active accompanied her prize to Malta, together with the prisoners, who included Commodore Don Amilcar Paolucci, commander in chief of the Italian Marine and Knight of the Iron Crown.

On the 16th of June, whilst Standard was cruising off the island of Corfu, she encountered the Italian gunboat Volpe, armed with an iron 4-pounder cannon, escorting the French dispatch boat Legera. The wind having fallen off, Captain Harvey dispatched his ships pinnace, cutter, and yawl in an attempt to capture the enemy ships. The British overhauled their quarry after having rowed for two hours. They captured Volpe despite facing stiff resistance, and then caused the Legera to run aground about four miles north of Cape St. Mary. The French crew took to the rocks above their vessel and kept up a continuous small arms fire on the British seamen who took possession of the vessel and towed her off. They then burnt both vessels. Despite the resistance and small arms fire the British had suffered no casualties.

During 1809 Standard served in the the Baltic under Captain Aiskew Hollis during the Gunboat War. On the 18th of May in that year a squadron consisting of Standard, the frigate HMS Owen Glendower, and the vessels Avenger, Rose, Ranger and Snipe, took the island of Anholt, with a landing party of seamen and marines under the command of Captain William Selby of the Owen Glendower, together with the assistance of Captain Edward Nicholls contingent of Royal Marines from Standard. The Danish garrison of 170 men put up a sharp but ineffectual resistance which only killed one British marine and wounded two others. The garrison then quickly capitulated, and the British took immediate possession of the island.

Hollis, in his report, stated that Anholt was strategically important insofar as it could furnish not onlt supplies of water to His Majesty's fleet, but also afforded a secure anchorage for merchant vessels sailing to and from the Baltic seaports. However, the principal objective of the mission was to restore the lighthouse on the island to its pre-war state to facilitate the movement of British men of war and merchantmen navigating the dangerous seas in the vicinity.

On the 19th of December, 1810, still under Captain Hollis, Standard sailed for the Med again. By the February of 1811 she had reached the Portuguese station, now temporarily under the command of Captain Joshua Horton, and then In May command was passed temporarily to Captain Charles Fleeming.

Fate.

On her return to England, Standard was paid off into ordinary in 1813. She was broken up in the October of 1816 at Sheerness.

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HMS STATELY (1784)



HMS Stately was a Thomas Slade designed, Ardent Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Thomas Raymond at Northam. Ordered on the 5th and confirmed on the 10th of February, 1777, she was laid down on the 25th of May, 1779, and launched on the 27th of December, 1784. The ship was completed between the 30th of that month and the 25th of February 1785 at Portsmouth at a cost of £25,037.9.11d plus £6,735 for extras.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Stately
Ordered:	5 December 1778
Builder:	Raymond, Northam
Laid down:	25 May 1779
Launched:	27 December 1784
Honours and awards:	Naval General Service Medal with clasps: "Egypt" "Stately 22 March 1808"
Fate:	Broken up, 1814
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ardent class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1388 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 0.5 in (49 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft6.5 in (13.5 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 9 in (5.8 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Lower deck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

Starting life in ordinary at Portsmouth, HMS Stately underwent a small repair and coppering between the September of 1787 and the April of 1788. She was partly fitted for The Spanish Armament under Captain Robert Calder in 1790 but saw no service.


In 1793 Stately was commissioned under Captain John Samuel Smith as the flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Richard King who took command at Portsmouth on the 24th of July in that year, as was reported in The Times newspaper.
In 1794 she came under Captain Richard fisher and then in 1795 Captain Billy Douglas, and sailed for the East Indies on the 12th of March. She then joined Elphinstone’s squadron at the Cape of Good Hope, where on the 7th of July, 1796 accompanied by other vessels she took the privateer Milanie. On the 17th of August in that year she took part in the capture of the Dutch squadron at Saldanha Bay. In the March of 1797 she was under the command of Captain Patrick Campbell until the August of that year, when Captain Andrew Todd took over her command.

In the August of 1798 she came under Captain John Spanger, followed in the November, by Captain John Osbourn.
It was during this year of Stately’s sojourn at the Cape that she became the venue for the court-martial of Mr. Reid, second mate of the East Indiaman King George. Whilst they were both on shore, Reid had struck Captain Richard Colnett, captain of the ship. The court-martial sentenced Reid to two years in the Marshallsea prison. This was because Colnett held a Letter of Marque Certificate. King George being a "private man-of-war", and the Navy's Articles of War applying only at sea. Had Reid struck Colnett aboard ship, the charge would have been mutiny, for which the penalty would have been hanging.

The Admiralty had Stately converted for use a troopship between the June and August of 1799.
Having been recommissioned in that July by Captain George Scott for service in the Med, she sailed for that theatre in the April of 1800. In 1801 she took part in the Egyptian operations armed en flute, and remained in this guise until 1804 when she returned home for necessary repairs performed by Perry and Co. at Blackwall between the November of 1804 and the May of 1805, at a cost of £22,422. Because Stately served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised to all surviving claimants in 1847.

Napoleonic Wars.

In the April of 1805 was refitted under Captain George Parker, as a fully armed 64 gun warship intended for North Sea service but by 1808 she was in the Baltic, where on the 22nd of March, accompanied by the Nassau she took and burnt the Danish 74 gun ship Prinds Christian Frederick near Grenaa off Zealand Point.



Stately and Nassau destroying the last Danish ship of the line, Prinds Christian Frederick, commanded by Captain C.W.Jessen, at the Battle of Zealand Point.

In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasps "Stately 22 March 1808" and "Nassau 22 March 1808" to any still surviving crew members of those vessels that chose to claim them.
In the June of 1808 Stately came under Captain William Cumberland’s command, and shortly afterwards returned to England. Between the August and September of that year she underwent a trifling small repair at Portsmouth for £6,402.

In the April of 1809 her Captain was thought to be James Whitley Dundas acting as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Bertie, once more in the Baltic, bur by the February of 1810 she was back at Portsmouth for repairs which took until April. She next came under the command of Captain Robert Campbell and sailed for the Med on the 28th of December in that year. Her next commander was Captain Edward Dixon, who was in turn superseded by Captain William Stewart in the August of 1812. From then until 1813 she served off Portugal, although she had another change of Captain in the November of 1812 when command passed to Captain Charles Bateman. During 1813 she came under Captain Charles Englis for her final duty as the Flagship of Vice Admiral George Martin.

Fate.

Stately was broken up at Portsmouth in the July of 1814.

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HMS Trident (1768)

HMS Trident was one of only three Exeter Class, 64 gun, third rate ships of the line designed by William Bately, and built by M/shipwright Israel Pownoll at Plymouth Dockyard. Ordered on the 4th of December 1762 and approved on the 2nd of February 1763, she was laid down in the October of that year and launched on the 20th of April 1768. She was completed in the January of 1771.


Trident, Prudent and Europe.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Trident
Ordered:	4 December 1762
Builder:	Plymouth Dockyard
Launched:	20 April 1768
Fate:	Sold out of the service, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Exeter Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1366​86⁄94 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 0 in (48.39 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 4 in (13 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 4 in (5.82 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Trident was commissioned in the May of 1771 for service in the Med. On the 30th of January, 1772, whilst anchored in Gibraltar harbour during a severe winter storm, the Danish ship-of-the-line Prinsesse Wilhelmine Caroline dragged its anchor, colliding with the bow of HMS Trident before running aground.
Between the May and July of that year she was fitted as a Flagship at a cost of £3,644.6.8d.
She was paid off in the September of 1774.

She was then fitted for ordinary at Chatham in the January of 1775. She underwent a very small repair and refit for £10,070.7.10d between the October of 1776 and the June of 1777. Having been recommissioned during the refit, from the April of 1778 until the June of that year she was under the command of Captain John Inglis. She was paid off again in the September of 1781 after wartime service.

Between the November of that year and the December of 1783 she underwent a Great Repair and coppering for the sum of £25,855.4.0d and was then laid up. Fitted for sea again between the February and July of 1795, in the April of that year she was recommissioned under Captain Theophilus Jones as the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Pole from the September of that year. By the November her new captain was Edward Osborne, who would continue in command until 1798. Under him Trident sailed for the East Indies on the 16th of May 1796 and was thus on hand at the Cape for the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay on the 17th of August of .that year.

Temporally placed under Captain Edward Packenham in the June of 1798, in quick succession she then came under captain’s Simon Miller in the June of 1799, and John Turner in the October of that year. He died in the January of 1801, and his place was taken by Captain Henry Lidgbird Ball in 1801, and then in temporily Commander’s Peter Haywood, Charles James Johnson, and finally Captain George Ralph Collier in the East Indies in 1802. During the period 18 04 to 1805 Trident came under the command of Captain Thomas Surridge as the Flagship of Vice Admiral Peter Rainier, and then under Captain Benjamin Page for her voyage home. On her return to England in the October of 1805 she was paid off and not recommissioned, and went into Ordinary at Chatham until 1807. By Admiralty Orders on the 12th of August in that year she was fitted at Chatham as a guard and receiving ship for Malta.between the September of that year and the April of 1808 under the supervision of Captain Robert Campbell. She spent her time between 1809 and 1815 in this role at Malta, and under Captain Richard Vincent from 1812 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral John Laugharne.

Fate.

In 1816 Trident came under the command of Commander Charles Hope Reid until the 3rd of July in that year when she was sold out of the service at Malta to Vicenzo Casuli for £1,516.10.0d.

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HMS Veteran (1787)

HMS Veteran was a Sir Edward Hunt designed Crown Class 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Robert Fabian until his death in 1786, and completed by his son of the same name, at East Cowes. Ordered on the 3rd of September 1780, and laid down in the July of 1781, she was launched on the 14th of August, 1787, and completed between the 15th of that month and the 13th of September of that same year at Portsmouth before going into Ordinary. The final cost being £24,259.12.0d to build, plus £9,695 for fitting and coppering.


Plan of the Orlop deck of Veteran

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Veteran
Ordered:	3 August 1780
Builder:	Fabian, East Cowes
Laid down:	July 1781
Launched:	14 August 1787
Fate:	Broken up, 1816
Notes:	Participated in: The Battle of Copenhagen
General characteristics
Class and type:	Crown Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,396 ¾ (bm)
Length:	160 ft 4 ½ in (48.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 8 in (13.6 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 5 in (5.9 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Veteran was commissioned under Captain Charles Nugent for Howe’s fleet in the March of 1793, and sailed for the Leeward Islands on the 26th of November in that year. In 1794 she was under Captain Lewis Robinson and in the March of that year she was at Martinique where Robinson was killed. By June she was at Guadeloupe now under Captain George Bowen, and later Captain Sampson Edwards.

However, in 1795 she was under the command of Captain Hancock Kelly, still stationed at the Leeward Islands. She then returned to England and was paid off in the October of 1796.

Veteran was recommissioned under Captain Abraham Guyot in the May of 1797, and in the August of that same year she came under the command of Captain George Gregory and at the Battle of Camperdown on the 11th of October served in the Lee column, suffering 4 killed and 21 wounded.

At end-February 1798 Veteran and HMS Astraea were responsible for the towing of the General Elliott into Great Yarmouth following her abandonment by the crew. In the following month the command of Veteran was transferred to Captain James Walker, followed by Captain J Moss in the June of that year, when she became the Flagship of Vice Admiral Archibald Dixon.

In the February of 1799 she came under the command of Captain Archibald Collingwood Dixon until 1801, and took part in Mitchell’s operations off the Dutch coast in the August of that year.

Veteran’s next assignment took place in the Baltic in 1801, where she was present at the Battle o Copenhagen, as part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker’s reserve fleet.

In the January of 1804 Veteran was placed under the command of Captain Richard King who was replaced in the June of that year by Captain James Newman.

In 1805, Veteran was captained by Capt. Andrew Evans in Jamaica. She subsequently served as the Flagship of both Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres, then second in command on the station, and on his recall, Vice Admiral Bartholomew Rowley in 1808.

Fate.

On her return to England in 1809 Veteran was fitted as a prison ship at Portsmouth in the July of that year, and was commissioned under Lieutenant Henry Marshall until 1811. In 1813 she came under Lieutenant William Henry Boyce, and in 1814 Lieutenant Stephen Donovan. In 1815 she was placed in Ordinary, and broken up at Portsmouth in the June of 1816.

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HMS Vigilant (1774)

HMS Vigilant was a John Williams designed Intrepid Class,64 gun, third rate ship of the line, built by Henry and Anthony Adams at Bucklers Hard, Ordered on the 14th of January, 1771, and laid down in the February of that year, a month before she was approved, she was launched on the 6th of October, 1774, and completed at Portsmouth between the 29th of October in that year and the 11th of July, 1778.


Vigilant

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Vigilant
Ordered:	14 January 1771
Builder:	Adams, Bucklers Hard
Laid down:	February 1771
Launched:	6 October 1774
Fate:	Broken up, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Intrepid Class, 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1376 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 6.5 in (48.62 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 5.5 in (13.51 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	64 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs

Service.

HMS Vigilant was commissioned in the March of 1778 for service in the American Revolution, but by 1779 she had been deemed unseaworthy by the navy. She was stripped of her sails and used as a floating battery to support the amphibious landing of British troops on Port Royal Island, South Carolina prior to the Battle of Beaufort. On her return to England she was paid off after wartime service in the September of 1781. Between the October of that year and the March of 1782 she was repaired, fitted and coppered at Chatham for the sum of £11,467.13.11d. Temporally recommissioned, she was paid off again in the July of the following year. Then, between the March and April of 1795 she was fitted as a prison ship at Portsmouth at a cost of £2,722. and again in the October of 1796 for £1,712. Recommissioned under Lieutenant Robert Young in this role, she then continued as such with a regular change in commanders until the January of1806, when she sank in Portsmouth Harbour. Raised again in the April of that year and repaired, she was recommissioned under Lieutenant John McDonald , and then in the August of that year command passed to Lieutenant Somerville until the end of1811, when Lieutenant James M’Aurthur assumed command for 1813. In 1814, still acting as a prison ship, her final commander was destined to be Lieutenant William Stone.

Fate.

HMS Vigilant, which could be deemed to arguably have been be the least active and most unseaworthy ship in this whole period, was broken up at Portsmouth in the April of.1816.

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HMS Yarmouth (1745)



HMS Yarmouth was a 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built at Deptford Dockyard by M/shipwright Joseph Allin, Jnr. Ordered on the 16th of June, 1742, and laid down on the 25th of November of that year, launched on the 8th of March, 1745, and completed on the 10th of May in that same year, at a cost of £30,527.4.9d. She had been previously ordered to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals for modifications to the 1719 Establishment, but the Admiralty had very quickly concluded that these were too small, and as an experiment in 1742 authorized an addition of 6ft to the planned length Yarmouth was thus re-ordered to the enlarged design in the June of that year. She had been built at Deptford because the Admiralty felt they could best observe the effectiveness of the added size at close quarters.


Plan of Yarmouth

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Yarmouth
Ordered:	16 June 1742
Builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	25 November 1742
Launched:	8 March 1745
Commissioned:	February 1745
In service:	1745–1807
Honours and awards:	Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1747 Seven Years’War. American Revolutionary War. Battle of the Saints 1782
Fate:	Broken up, April 1811
General characteristics
Class and type:	1741 proposals 64 gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1359 ​38⁄94 (bm)
Length:	160 ft (48.8 m) (gundeck) 131 ft 8 in (39.8 m) (keel)
Beam:	44 ft 3 in (13.5 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 11in (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 10 × 9-pounder guns Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Yarmouth was commissioned under Captain Roger Martin in the February of 1745 for the Western squadron in the Downs during the winter of 1745.

The War of the Austrian Succession.

In 1746, still with the Western squadron she was the Flagship of W. Martin. And on the 15th of April took the privateer Le Chasseur. Later in that year, on the 9th of October, now under Captain Piercy Brett, she joined Admiral George Anson’s Fleet cruising off Cape Finisterre.

In the following year, on the 14th of May 1747, she served as one of the ships in Anson’s squadron at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre. This action saw 14 British ships attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquiere. The British captured 4 ships of the line, 2 Frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour battle. One French frigate, one French East India warship and the other merchantmen escaped.

In later 1747, temporarily under Captain Charles Saunders she took part in the second battle of Finisterre, but by 1748 she was back under Brett’s command again this time with Warren’s fleet.

By Admiralty Orders, on the 22nd of November 1748 Yarmouth was reduced to guard ship duties at Chatham, and was then paid off in 1752. In the September of 1753 she removed to Sheerness still in the role of a guard ship under Captain George Cockburn.

Refitted for Channel service in 1754,in the March of 1755 she came under Captain Harry Norris and sailed as a reinforcement for Boscawen.

The Seven Years’ War.

In the January of 1756 she joined Osborne’s Fleet, but by the June of that year, now under Captain Chaloner Ogle, she was back with Boscawen. In the November of that year, under Captain Robert Frankland she became the flagship of the now Rear Admiral Norris with Knowles’s Fleet, and on the10th of March 1757 she sailed for the East Indies.

In 1758 HMS Yarmouth served under Captain John Harrison as Flagship to Vice Admiral George Pocock at the Battle of Cuddalore which took place on the 29th of April of that year off the Carnatic coast of India and was an indecisive battle fought between the British squadron and a French squadron under the command of the Comte d’Ache. British casualties were 29 killed and 89 wounded, whilst the French lost 99 killed and 321 wounded. Although the battle itself was indecisive, the French fleet was able to achieve its primary objective in delivering the reinforcements for which the defenders of Pondicherry had been awaiting.
The two squadrons clashed again on the 3rd of August at the Battle of Negapatam and finally on the 10th of September at the Battle of Pondicherry.

Yarmouth returned to England to pay off in 1760.On the 4th of November in that year she underwent a survey, and during the period between the 11th of September 1761 and the July of 1763 she underwent a great repair at Chatham costing £30,338.9.3d.

Recommissioned inthe May of that year under Captain Charles Proby, who was to command her until 1766, she took up guard duties at Chatham. In 1767 she removed to Sheerness to continue in this role, now under Captain James Gambier, and thence to Chatham once more.
In 1770 she came under the command of Captain Edward Vernon back at Sheerness once more, and later under Captain Western Verlo.

A change of fortune for Yarmouth came in 1777 when she recommissioned under Captain Nicholas Vincent, and on the 9th of September in that year she sailed for the Leeward Islands.

The American Revolution.

On the 7th of March, 1778 Yarmouth was attacked by the American frigate Randolph which had half the number of Yarmouth’s guns and estimatedly less than a quarter of her firepower. The frigate managed to cause some minor damage to two of Yarmouth's topmasts and a portion of her bowsprit, and now having established superior manoeuvrability, attempted to rake the Yarmouth. Randolph was now managing 3 broadsides to each one with which Yarmouth could reply, however the 12 lb shot failed to do substantial damage or to penetrate Yarmouth's hull, whilst Yarmouth's 18 and 32-pounders were able to penetrate any part of her comparatively lightly armoured opponent with impunity. Having taken a critical hit, most probably having entered her magazine, Randolph exploded during the engagement,killing all but four of her crew. Part of her wreckage landed on Yarmouth's decks, including Randolph's ensign. Yarmouth was forced to repair two damaged topmasts, but otherwise suffered no significant damage, and no fatalities or serious injuries.

Later in 1778 she came under the Captaincy of Nathaniel Bateman, who would be dismissed in 1780 by Court Martial. On the 6th of August 1779 Yarmouth took part in the Battle of Grenada, taking her place at the van of the rear squadron, and in the following year, on the 17th of April, 1780, in Admiral Rodney’s Fleet at in the Battle of Martinique. By the end of the month she was under Captain John Duckworth for the actions at St Lucia from the 15th and 17th of May in that year. Following this action she proceeded with Rodney to New York and thence home to England.

In 1781,Yarmouth was under Captain Skeffington Ludwidge until she paid off in the March of that year in order for her to be reduced in armament to become a 60 gun Fourth Rate ship. She was ,however, re-established as a 74 gun ship of the Line by Admiralty Orders given on the 18th of April and was fitted as such for Home Service between the May and October of that year. Recommissioned by Captain William Denne for Derby’s fleet in the autumn of that year, in the January of 1782, under Captain Anthony Parrey she sailed for the Leeward Islands once more.

On the 9th of April of that year she saw action in the Dominica Channel, and on the 12th of the month at the Battle of the Saints, and following this an action at the Mona Passage on the 19th of the month. On the 21st of July she sailed for New York with Pigot, and then to the blockade of Cape Francois. In the January? of 1783, she came under Captain Edward Herbert and returned to the Leeward Islands. From there she returned home and was paid off in the June of that year.

Fate.

Fitted as a receiving ship at Plymouth between the November and December of that same year she remained in this role until 1807.
In the April of 1811, Yarmouth was broken up there.