HMS Panther (1758)
HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]
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Name: | HMS Panther |
Ordered: | 25 May 1756 |
Builder: | Martin and Henniker, Chatham |
Laid down: | June 1756 |
Launched: | 22 June 1758 |
Commissioned: | 3 September 1758 |
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Fate: | Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard, November 1813 |
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Class and type: | Edgar-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 128559⁄94 bm |
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Beam: | 43 ft 7 in (13.28 m) |
Depth of hold: | 18 ft 4 in (5.59 m) |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Complement: | 420 |
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She served during the Seven Years' War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila. On 31 October 1761 Panther and the Coventry-class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.[2]
Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.[1]
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Plan of the attack against Fort Louis (now Fort George), at Point à Pitre, Guadeloupe by a squadron, detached from Commodore Moore and commanded by Captain Wm. Harman of HMS Berwick on 14 February 1759. Showing Panther
Notes
- Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p. 177.
- Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press. p. 75-76. ISBN 0859894266.
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References
- Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.
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