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Thunderer

HMS Thunderer

Sunk

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74
WarAmerican War of Independence

74-gun ship, at Ushant in 1778. Lost with all hands in the Great Hurricane of October 1780 in the West Indies.

Model of a 74-gun ship, 3rd rate, cz. 1760. Thought to be either HMS Hercules from 1759 or HMS Thunderer from 1760. Photo: Rémi Kaupp, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

74 guns

  • Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarter deck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
BuilderWoolwich Dockyard
Launched19 March 1760
Length166 ft 6 in (50.75 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

19 March 1760

27 July 1778

Fate

Sunk

Wrecked on 10 October 1780