HMS Terrible (1785)

HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1785 at Rotherhithe.[1]

History
UK
Name: HMS Terrible
Ordered: 13 December 1781
Builder: Wells, Rotherhithe
Laid down: 7 January 1783
Launched: 28 March 1785
Fate: Broken up, 1836
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Culloden-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 16791794 (bm) )
Length: 170 ft (52 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 2 in (14.38 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 11 in (6.07 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

In December 1813 she was paid off and placed in ordinary at Sheerness Dockyard. She remained out of service until 1829, other than a nine-month period between August 1822 and May 1823 when she acted as a receiving ship for volunteers and pressed men. From 1829 to 1836 she served as a coal depot for Navy steamships. Declared surplus even to this limited requirement, she was brought to Deptford Dockyard and broken up in March 1836.[2]

Citations and notes

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 180.
  2. Winfield 2007, p.83

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.
  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792. London: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781844157006.


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