*** Welcome to piglix ***

HMS Trident (1768)

History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
Name: HMS Trident
Ordered: 4 December 1762
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched: 20 April 1768
Fate: Sold out of the service, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type: Exeter-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 13668694 (bm)
Length: 158 ft 9 in (48.39 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 44 ft (13 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 1 in (5.82 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Trident was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 April 1768 at Portsmouth.

For some of the period between 1793 and 1796, she was under the command of Captain Theophilus Jones.

Trident was sold out of the navy in 1816.



...
Wikipedia

...