HMS Vengeance (1774)

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

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.

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History
Great Britain
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 & 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 was broken up in 1816.^[1]