HMS Cornwall

Scuttled

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	74
War	American War of Independence

74-gun ship, at Grenada and Martinique in 1780. So badly damaged at Martinique and in the skirmishes after it that she was condemned and burned at St Lucia in June 1780.

The body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Cornwall (1761), Arrogant (1761), and Kent (1762), and later for Defence (1763), Edgar (1779), Goliath (1781), Vanguard (1787), Excellent (1787), Saturn (1786), Elephant (1786), Illustrious (1789), Bellerophon (1786), Zealous (17 Photo: unknown, Navy office, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

74 guns

Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

Builder	Wells, Deptford
Launched	19 May 1761
Length	168 ft (51 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

19 May 1761

Battle of Grenada

Damaged

6 July 1779

Crippled

Battle of Martinique

Damaged

17 April 1780

Fate

Scuttled

Burnt, 30 June 1780