HMS Belliqueux (1780)
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| Name: | HMS Belliqueux |
| Ordered: | 19 February 1778 |
| Builder: | Perry, Blackwall Yard |
| Laid down: | June 1778 |
| Launched: | 5 June 1780 |
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| Fate: | Broken up, 1816 |
| Notes: | Prison ship from 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ardent-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1379 (bm) |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 44 ft 4 in (13.51 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Belliqueux (Eng. warlike) was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 June 1780 at Blackwall Yard, London. She was named after the French ship Belliqueux captured in 1758.
In 1781 Belliqueux took part at the Battle of Fort Royal, and in 1782 she was at the Battle of the Saintes.
At the Action of 4 August 1800, Belliqueux captured the French frigate Concorde.
After the Dutch Governor Jansens signed a capitulation on 18 January 1806, and the British established control of the Cape Colony, Belliqueux escorted the East Indiamen William Pitt, Jane Dutchess of Gordon, Sir William Pulteney, Comet to Madras. The convoy included the Northampton, Streatham, Europe, Union, Glory, and Sarah Christiana.
Philip Dundas, Lieutenant-Governor of Penang died on-board on 8 April 1807, while Belliqueux was in the Bay of Bengal.
Belliqueux was employed as a prison ship from 1814, and was broken up in 1816.
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