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Invincible

HMS Invincible

Wrecked

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74 guns
WarsAmerican War of Independence, French Revolutionary Wars

74-gun ship, at the Moonlight Battle, Fort Royal, the Chesapeake and St Kitts. She fought at the Glorious First of June in 1794, and was wrecked on Hammond Knoll off Norfolk in March 1801 with about 400 men.

Charles John De Lacy provided two paintings of different HMS Invincibles for the shipyard launch ephemera of W G Armstrong Whitworth. The original ephemera is in Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums item 450/1. Photo: TWAMWIR, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BuilderWells, Deptford
Launched9 March 1765
Length168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

9 March 1765

Battle of Cape St Vincent (the Moonlight Battle)
Survived

16–17 January 1780 · American War of Independence

Battle of Fort Royal
Survived

29 April 1781 · American War of Independence

Battle of the Chesapeake
Survived

5 September 1781 · American War of Independence

Battle of St Kitts (Frigate Bay)
Survived

25–26 January 1782 · American War of Independence

Glorious First of June
Survived

28 May – 1 June 1794 · French Revolutionary Wars

Fate

Wrecked

Wrecked, 16 March 1801