Ship of the line of the Royal Navy
Terrible
History Great Britain Name HMS Terrible Ordered 8 January 1761 Builder John Barnard, Harwich Dockyard Launched 4 September 1762 Fate Burned, 1781 Notes General characteristics [ 1] Class and type Ramillies -classship of the line Tons burthen 1644 Length 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck) Beam 46 ft 11 in (14.30 m) Depth of hold 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) Propulsion Sails Sail plan Full-rigged ship Armament
74 guns:
Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , built by John Barnard and launched on 4 September 1762 at King's Yard in Harwich , as a sister ship to HMS Arrogant .[ 1]
In the English Channel, on 15 April 1777, under Captain Richard Bickerton, she took an American privateer brig called the Rising States, Capt Thompson.[ 2] [ 3]
In 1778 she fought at the First Battle of Ushant , and in 1781 Terrible (Capt. Finch) was part of Sir Thomas Graves ' fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake . During the course of the battle, she took heavy damage, and was scuttled , or deliberately sunk, after the battle had ended.[ 4]
Notable Commanders
Notes
^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 177.
^ Log of Captain Richard Bickerton, HMS Terrible, 15 and 16 April 1777. Primary source transcribed on blog site http://paulinespiratesandprivateers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/history-aboard-terrible.html accessed 6 Dec 2015
^ "Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 11 AMERICAN THEATRE: Jan. 1, 1778–Mar. 31, 1778 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Jan. 1, 1778–Mar. 31, 1778" (PDF) . U.S. Government printing office via Imbiblio. Retrieved 23 August 2023 .^ Larrabee, Harold A. (1964). Decision at the Chesapeake . New York: Clarkson N. Potter. pp. 220– 222. OCLC 426234 .
References
Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .
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