HMS Prudent (1768)

HMS Prudent was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1768 at Woolwich.[1]

History
UK
Name: HMS Prudent
Ordered: 7 January 1762
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 28 September 1768
Honours and
awards:

Participated in:

Battle of St. Kitts
Fate: Sold out of the service, 1814
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Exeter-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1367 (bm)
Length: 158 ft 9 in (48.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 44 ft (13.4 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 1 in (5.8 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

She is listed as being on harbour service in 1779,[1] though she was back in regular service later in the American Revolutionary War as in 1782 she participated in the Battle of St. Kitts.[2]

Prudent was sold out of the service in 1814.[1]

Notes

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p178.
  2. Schomberg, Isaac (1802). Naval Chronology:or, An Historical Summary of Naval & Maritime Events, From the Time of the Romans, to the Treaty of Peace, 1802. London: T. Egerton by C. Roworth. p. 398.

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.


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