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Magnanime

HMS Magnanime

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns64 guns
WarsAmerican War of Independence, French Revolutionary Wars

64-gun ship, joined Hughes with Sultan in 1782. Cut down into a 44-gun frigate in the 1790s; broken up in 1813.

'Magnanime' (1780) Plan showing the stern from above the waterline for Magnanime (1780). From Tyne & Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA. MAGNANIME 1780 Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As third rate

  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounder guns
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid down23 August 1777
Launched14 October 1780
CommissionedOctober 1780
Length159 ft 6 in (48.62 m) (gundeck) 131 ft 6 in (40.08 m) (keel)
Complement500 (as 64-gun ship); 310 officers and men (as frigate)

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

Career

Launched

14 October 1780

12 April 1782 · American War of Independence

6 July 1782 · American War of Independence

3 September 1782 · American War of Independence

20 June 1783 · American War of Independence

12 October 1798 · French Revolutionary Wars

Fate

Survived

Broken up at Sheerness Dockyard, July 1813