HMS Defiance

Survived

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	74 guns
Wars	French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars

74-gun ship. At Copenhagen in 1801, Calder's action and Trafalgar, where she took Aigle.

Plan showing the body plan with sternboard decoration and name on the counter, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Berwick (1775), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan was later approved for Bombay Castle (1782), Pow Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Builder	Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid down	April 1782
Launched	10 December 1783
Length	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

10 December 1783

Battle of Copenhagen

Damaged

2 April 1801 · French Revolutionary Wars

Rear-Admiral Graves's flagship

Battle of Cape Finisterre (Calder's Action)

Survived

22 July 1805 · Napoleonic Wars

Battle of Trafalgar

Damaged

21 October 1805 · Napoleonic Wars

Took Aigle

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1817