HMS Vengeance (1774)

HMS Vengeance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 June 1774 at Rotherhithe.[1] By 1780, she was at the island of Martinique, and was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780[2] but recovered and made her way to Portsmouth to be repaired. Finished in 1803, the ship was put into reserve before becoming a prison ship in the year 1808.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Vengeance.

Contemporary engraving
History
UK
Name:	HMS Vengeance
Ordered:	14 January 1771
Builder:	Randall, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	April 1771
Launched:	25 June 1774
Fate:	Broken up, 1816
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Royal Oak-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1626 ​^37⁄94 (bm))
Length:	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

She became a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816.[1]

Citations and notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
2. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228). 29 December 1780.

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.