Ship of the line of the Royal Navy
Vigilant
History Great Britain Name HMS Vigilant Ordered 14 January 1771 Builder Adams, Bucklers Hard Laid down February 1771 Launched 6 October 1774 Fate Broken up, 1816 General characteristics [ 1] Class and type Intrepid -classship of the line Tons burthen 1347 bm Length 159 ft 6 in (48.62 m) (gundeck) Beam 44 ft 4 in (13.51 m) Depth of hold 19 ft (5.8 m) Propulsion Sails Sail plan Full-rigged ship Armament
64 guns:
Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs
Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs
HMS Vigilant was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 6 October 1774 at Bucklers Hard .[ 1]
By 1779 she had been deemed unseaworthy by the navy. She was stripped of her sails and used as a floating battery to support the amphibious landing of British Army troops on Port Royal Island , South Carolina prior to the Battle of Beaufort .[ 2] prison ship , and was broken up in 1816.[ 1]
Citations
^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 181.
^ Rowland et al, p. 216
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 .
Rowland, Lawrence; Moore, Alexander; Rogers, George (1996). The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514–1861 . Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-090-1 OCLC 194626437 .
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