HMS Panther (1758)

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Panther
Ordered:	25 May 1756
Builder:	Martin and Henniker, Chatham
Laid down:	June 1756
Launched:	22 June 1758
Commissioned:	3 September 1758
In service:	1758–1765 1771–1774 1777–1783 1807–1813
Fate:	Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard, November 1813
General characteristics
Class and type:	Edgar-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1285 ⁵⁹⁄₉₄ bm
Length:	154 ft 0 in (46.94 m) (gundeck) 127 ft 0 in (38.71 m) (keel)
Beam:	43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	420
Armament:	60 guns: Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.

She served during the Seven Years' War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila. On 31 October 1761 Panther and Coventry Class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish Galleon Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.

Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.