HMS Arrogant (1761)

HMS Arrogant was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built of Suffolk oak[1] launched on 22 January 1761 at Harwich. She was the first of the Arrogant class ships of the line, designed by Sir Thomas Slade.[2]

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

Arrogant
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Arrogant
Ordered: 13 December 1758
Builder: John Barnard & John Turner, Harwich Dockyard
Laid down: March 1759
Launched: 22 January 1761
Commissioned: January 1761
Fate: Sold out o service, 1810
General characteristics
Class and type: Arrogant class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1644​54⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 168 ft 3 in (51.28 m) (gundeck)
  • 138 ft 0 in (42.06 m) (keel)
Beam: 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship

Francis Light, founder of Penang, was a midshipman on Arrogant in 1761.[3]

In 1770 she was a guard ship at Portsmouth.[4]

On 12 April 1782 she was recently re-equipped and was second in line in the main wave of attack on the French fleet at the Battle of the Saintes tunder the overall command of Admiral George Rodney.[5]

She took part in the Action of 8 September 1796 and in January 1799 was with the British squadron at the defence of Macau during the Macau Incident.

By 1804 she had been converted to a hulk at Bombay where she served as a receiving ship, sheer hulk, and floating battery. In 1810 she was condemned as unfit for further service.[6] She was sold out of service in 1810[2]

References
  1. Famous Fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p.104
  2. Winfield 2007, pp. 63–64
  3. Steuart, Archibald Francis) (1901), A short sketch of the lives of Francis and William Light: the founders of Penang and Adelaide, with extracts from their journals, Sampson Low, Marston & Co, retrieved 26 October 2019 (Trove catalogue entry here)
  4. "VII. The Venus: Letters." The Barrington Papers, Vol. 77. Ed. D Bonner-Smith. London: Navy Record Society, 1937. 391-411. British History Online Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  5. Famous Fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p.106
  6. Parkinson (1954), p.356.

Bibliography
  • 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.
  • Parkinson, Cyril Northcote (1954) War in the Eastern Seas, 1793–1815. (George Allen & Unwin).
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.


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