HMS Thunderer (1783)
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| Name: | HMS Thunderer |
| Ordered: | 23 July 1781 |
| Builder: | John & William Wells, Rotherhithe |
| Laid down: | March 1782 |
| Launched: | 13 November 1783 |
| Commissioned: | January 1793 |
| Fate: | Broken up, March 1814 |
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| Class and type: | Culloden-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1,679 (bm) |
| Length: | 170 ft 8 in (52.02 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 7 in (14.50 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft 11 in (6.07 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | about 600 |
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HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the Wells brother's shipyard in Rotherhithe and launched on 13 November 1783. After completion, she was laid up until 1792, when she underwent a 'Middling Repair' to bring her into service in 1793.
In 1794 she fought at the Glorious First of June under Captain Albemarle Bertie, and from 1796 to 1801 served in the West Indies, under a succession of captains. During this period, under Captain Pierre Flasse, Thunderer fought at the Battle of Jean-Rabel in which she and HMS Valiant forced the crew of the French frigate Harmonie to scuttle their vessel to prevent her capture.
On 15 October, Melampus and Latona, and later Orion and Thalia, and later still Pomone and Concorde, chased two French frigates, the Tartu and Néréide, 50-gun frigate Forte and the brig-aviso (or corvette) Éveillé. The British ships had to give up on the frigates due to the closeness of the shore. However, Pomone and Thunderer, which had joined the chase, were able to take the Eveillé, of 18 guns, and 100 men. The French force had been out for 60 days and had captured 12 West Indiamen, two of which, Kent and Albion, the British had already recaptured.Pomone and her squadron had recaptured Kent on 9 October.Orion recaptured Albion. Warren's squadron returned to England in December with the remnants of the expedition to Quiberon Bay.
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