Third Rate 64 gun ships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Sampson (1781)

HMS Sampson was a John Williams designed, Intrepid Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by M/shipwright Nicholas Phillips until the end of 1777, then George White until the April of 1779, and completed by John Jenner at Woolwich Dockyard. The ship was ordered on the 25th of July, 1776, laid down in the 20th of October 1777, and launched on the 8th of May, 1781. She was completed on the 29th of June in that year.


Sampson

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Sampson
Ordered:	25 July 1775
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	20 October 1777
Launched:	8 May 1781
Fate:	Broken up, 1832
General characteristics
Class and type:	Intrepid Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1380 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 5.5 in (48.62 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 5.75 in (13.51 m)
Depth of hold: Draught;	18 ft 10.5 in (5.8 m) 11ft 6in / 16ft 5in
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	64 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs QD: 10 × 4 pdrs Fc: 2 × 9 pdrs

Service.

HMS Sampson was commissioned in the April of 1781, paid off and recommissioned in the April of 1783 and fitted as a guardship at Plymouth between the Nay and September of 1783. Paid off once more in the June of 1786, she underwent a small repair in the June and July of 1792 for £19,255. She was recommissioned in the February of 1793 under Captain Robert Montague, and after fitting at Plymouth in the July of that year, sailed with a convoy for the East Indies on the 20th of March, 1794. On her return in the December of that year she was paid off and then recommissioned during that same month. In the April of 1795 she came under Captain Thomas Louis, but prior to making sail for Jamaica on the 23rd of May, had Captain William Clark appointed to command her.
In the February of 1796 Sampson came under Captain George Gregory, who was superseded in the May of that year by Captain George Tripp, and even later Captain Joseph Bingham before she was paid off in the February of 1797.

Recommissioned in the November of that same year under Lieutenant William Bevians until 1800 for use as a prison ship at Plymouth, in the September of 1801,she was under Lieutenant John Norris but opaid off once more in the May of 1802. Hulked as a Powder magazine in the August of that year it seemed as if Sampson’s
short seagoing life had been curtailed, and she wound up as a receiving ship at Cork in the October of 1805. However, between the December of that year and the January of 1806 she was recalled to service, fitted and rearmed as a 64 gun ship at Plymouth, and recommissioned in the April of that year under Captain Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy. In the July of that year she was placed under the command of Captain Samuel Warren, and shortly after that Captain Captain William Cumming as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Charles Stirling. On the 30th of August she sailed as escort to a convoy bound for the Cape of Good Hope, and then continued to the River Plate. On her return home in the December of that year she was paid off into ordinary at Chatham.

Fate.

Sampson was commissioned in the March of 1808 as a prison hulk in the Medway under Lieutenant John Watherston until 1811. He was followed by several other commanders until 1814 when Sampson was fitted as a sheer hulk at Woolwich.

On the 30th of May 1832 she was sold to John Levy at Deptford, and was then broken up.

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HMS Sceptre (1781)

HMS Sceptre was a John Williams designed Inflexible Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Randall and Co. at Rotherhithe. Ordered on the 5th of February 1777, confirmed on the 11th of February, 1779, laid down in the May of 1780, and launched on the 8th of June, 1781.She was completed and coppered at Deptford on the 17th of August in that same year.


Sceptre

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Sceptre
Ordered:	16 January 1779
Builder:	Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	May 1780
Launched:	8 June 1781
Fate:	Wrecked in Table Bay, 5 November 1799
Notes:	Participated in: Battle of Trincomalee Battle of Cuddalore 1783 Battle of Muizenberg
General characteristics
Class and type:	Inflexible Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1398 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 9in (48 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 9 in (13.51 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 0 in (5.74 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 Sceptre was commissioned in the January of 1781, and shortly after her completion under Captain Samuel Graves, was dispatched to the Indian theatre in order to join the squadron of Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes. Her first action took place on the 3rd of September, 1782 at the Battle of Trincomalee off the coast of Ceylon. This was the fourth battle of a bloody campaign between Vice-Admiral Hughes and the French Admiral Bailli de Suffren’s squadron. In the battle the British total losses were 51 killed and 285 wounded, vs. the French losses of 82 killed and 255 wounded.

In the year following, on the night of the 11th of April, 1783 Sceptre was fortunate in capturing a 20 gun Coquette Class Corvette the Naiade, under the command of captain Villaret,. Naïade was taken into service by the Royal Navy, but was never commissioned. Instead she was sold in the August of 1784.
On the 20th of June, in the Bay of Bengal, Sceptre was involved in the Battle of Cuddalore, which turned out to be the final episode in the campaign.


The Battle of Cuddalore, Auguste Jugelet

She returned to England in the June of 1784, and was paid off after wartime service and was then laid up at Portsmouth and went into ordinary.

She underwent a small repair costing £15,148.18.11d in the January to June of 1785 but was not recommissioned until the March of 1793 under Captain James Dacres, for Howe’s Fleet. Having been fitted for sea between the April and May of that year, she sailed for Jamaica on the the 1st of November in that same year.
In 1794, under the command of Commodore John Ford, Sceptre took part in the San Domingo operations in the May and June of that year and on June the 4th assisted in the capture of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
On the 12th of March, 1795, now under the command of Captain William Essington, Sceptre became the Flagship of Vice Admiral John McBride in the North Sea prior to sailing as escort to a convoy of East Indiamen bound for India and China via St Helena and the Cape of Good Hope.

When Sceptre arrived at St. Helena she brought the news that France had invaded the Netherlands in the January of that year. Furthermore, under an order dated the 9th of February, 1795, Royal Navy vessels and British ships under Letters of Marque were ordered to detain Dutch vessels and cargoes and bring them into British ports that they might be detained provisionally. Then, on the 2nd of June the British East India Packet Swallow arrived from the Cape with the news than a convoy of Dutch East Indiamen had left there, in transit to the Netherlands.
On the18th of May, the Dutch brig Komeet, commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Mynheer Claris, and the Dutch Corvette Scipio, Captain de Jong, set out from Table Bay with a further sixteen East Indiamen, for Europe. Inclement weather conditions forced eight Indiamen to return to the Cape. The remaining eight Indiamen, which had sailed on the 18th of May and their two escorts, and a private Dutch ship from the Cape, the whaler Herstilder, pressed on despite the storm and all but two of this group reached ports in the then neutral Norway.
Essington prevailed upon Colonel Brooke, the governor of St Helena, to loan him some troops and to allow the British EIC vessels which were in port there to form a squadron in an attempt to intercept the Dutch. On the 3rd of June, Sceptre, General Goddard, Manship,and Swallow set out. Five other HEIC ships set out later, of which only Busbridge caught up with the squadron. On the10th, the British succeeded in capturing the Dutch Indiaman Hougly, which Swallow escorted into St Helena, before returning to the squadron with additional seamen. Due to bad weather, Manship and Busbridge then lost contact with Essington's squadron.

In the afternoon of the 14th of June, Essington's squadron sighted seven sail. At 1 a.m. the next morning General Goddard penetrated the Dutch fleet, which fired on her. She did not ,however, return fire. Nevertheless, later that morning, after a brisk exchange of shots between the fleets,the Dutch surrendered. The HEIC ships Busbridge, Captain Samuel Maitland, and Asia, Captain John Davy Foulkes, arrived on the scene and helped board the Dutch vessels. There were no casualties on either side. The British then brought their prizes into St Helena on the 17th of June.



General Goddard, HMS Sceptre, and Swallow capturing Dutch East Indiamen, byThomas Luny; National Maritime Museum.

On the 1st of July, Sceptre, General Goddard and the prizes sailed from St Helena to gather in other returning British East Indiamen. They then returned to St Helena, where George Vancouver and Discovery, which had arrived there in the meantime, joined them. The entire convoy, now comprising some 20 vessels, sailed for Shannon in August, the majority arriving there on the13th of December, although three of the Dutch vessels were lost, Houghly on the 1st of September, and Surcheance on the 5th. Zeelelie escaped, but was wrecked off the Scilly Islands on the 26th. General Goddard reached the Downs on the 15th of October.
Because the captures occurred before Britain had declared war on the Dutch, now the new Batavian Republic, the vessels become Droits to the Crown. Nevertheless, prize money, in the amount of two-thirds of the value of the Dutch ships still amounted to £76,664.14. Of this, £61,331 15s 2d was distributed among the officers and crew of Sceptre, General Goddard, Busbridge, Asia, and Swallow.
On the 17th of August, 1796 Sceptre, was present at the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay. In the March of 1797 she came under the command of Captain Thomas Alexander and then in the September of that year Captain Valentine Edwards. On the 19th of September 1799 she destroyed the 10 gun Privateer L’Eclair at Rodrigues.

Fate.


HMS Sceptre sinking

While still under the command of Captain Edwards, Sceptre, riding at anchor in table Bay, was caught a storm on the 5th of November in that year, along with seven other vessels. At 10:30am, Captain Edwards ordered the topmasts to be struck down, and the fore and main yards lowered in order to ease the ship in the strengthening winds. At midday, the ship fired a feu de joie on the occasion of the Gunpowder Plot, suggesting no apparent apprehension about the oncoming storm. However within half an hour, the main anchor cable parted followed by the secondary one. At approximately 7pm, the ship was driven ashore onto a reef at Woodstock Beach. The ship was battered to pieces, and approximately 349 seamen and marines lost their lives. One officer, two midshipmen, 47 seamen and one marine were saved from the wreck, but nine of these died on the beach.



A sketch of wreckage showing the guns from Sceptre at Craig's Tower by Lady Anne Barnard

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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.