HMS Thunderer (1760)
Model of a 74-gun ship, 3rd rate, circa 1760. Thought to be either HMS Hercules or HMS Thunderer from 1760.
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| Name: | HMS Thunderer |
| Ordered: | 15 July 1756 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Launched: | 19 March 1760 |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 1780 |
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| Class and type: | Hercules-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1609 33⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 166 ft 6 in (50.75 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 6 in (14.17 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich. She earned a battle honour in a single-ship action off Cadiz with the French ship Achille (64 guns) in 1761, during the Seven Years' War.
She foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies in 1780.
Among the lost sailors were Captain Robert Boyle Nicholas, son of William Nicholas of Froyle, Hants., and Midshipman Nathaniel Cook (1764-1780), the second child of Captain James Cook.
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