HMS Theseus

Survived

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

74-gun ship, at the Nile and the Basque Roads.

H.M.S. Theseus Vice Admiral Dacres, in the Hurricane which happened in Septr 1804, in the West Indies. Plate 1. One of four plates showing the 74-gun HMS Theseus caught in a hurricane off San Domingo between 4 and 11 September 1804. HMS Theseus and HMS Hercule were badly damaged in the hurricane, bu Photo: Edward Burt, 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	Perry, Blackwall Yard
Laid down	3 September 1783
Launched	25 September 1786
Length	170 ft (52 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

25 September 1786

Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Survived

22–25 July 1797 · French Revolutionary Wars

Nelson's flagship

Battle of the Nile

Damaged

1–3 August 1798 · French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of the Basque Roads

Survived

11–24 April 1809 · Napoleonic Wars

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1814