HMS Excellent

Survived

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	74
War	French Revolutionary Wars

74-gun ship, Cuthbert Collingwood's at Cape St Vincent, where she forced Salvador del Mundo and San Isidro to strike and came to Nelson's help.

Excellent (1787) Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the elevation of the gun and carriage, and split view of the carriage to show the construction from above and below, relating to a new Truck Carriage for a 68 pounder or ten inch Gun sent to HMS Excellent (1787), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, possible af Photo: C. J. Thomas, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns

Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdr guns
Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdr guns
Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdr guns

Builder	Graham, Harwich
Laid down	March 1782
Launched	27 November 1787
Length	168 ft (51.2 m) (gundeck)
Complement	600

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

Career

Launched

27 November 1787

Battle of Cape St Vincent

Damaged

14 February 1797

Collingwood

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1835