HMS Prudent (1768)

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 & 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

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

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.

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

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p178.

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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