HMS Centaur

Survived

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	74 guns
Wars	Napoleonic Wars, Finnish War

Ship of the line, flagship of Sir Samuel Hood. In the West Indies in 1804 her men fortified Diamond Rock off Martinique; off Rochefort in 1806 Hood lost his right arm in her taking the French frigates; and she was his flagship in the Baltic in 1808. With Implacable she caught the Russian Vsevolod and took her after a fight in which the two ships were lashed together.

Picturesque Views of the Diamond Rock... South East View of the Diamond Rock, with the Cannon being hauled up from the Centaur by the Cable Materials: aquatint & etching, coloured Measurements: Sheet: 470 x 590 mm; Mount: 607 mm x 836 mm PAH9544 Photo: John Eckstein Joseph Constantine Stadler, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns
QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns
Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down	November 1790
Launched	14 March 1797
Commissioned	June 1797
Length	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck) 144 ft 3 in (44.0 m) (keel)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

14 March 1797

Action of 25 September 1806

Damaged

25 September 1806 · Napoleonic Wars

Hood's flagship; Hood lost his arm

Capture of the Vsevolod

Survived

26 August 1808 · Finnish War

Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1819