Name HMS Belliqueux Laid down June 1778 Notes Prison ship from 1814 Launched 5 June 1780 | Ordered 19 February 1778 Fate Broken up, 1816 Construction started June 1778 Builder Blackwall Yard | |
Honours and
awards Participated in
Battle of Fort Royal
Battle of the Saintes | ||
HMS Belliqueux (Eng. warlike) was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 June 1780 at Blackwall Yard, London. She was named after the French ship Belliqueux captured in 1758.
In 1781 Belliqueux took part at the Battle of Fort Royal, and in 1782 she was at the Battle of the Saintes.
At the Action of 4 August 1800, Belliqueux captured the French frigate Concorde.
On 11 February 1806 she was escorting a convoy that was three days out of the Cape on their way to Madras. The convoy included the East Indiamen Northampton, William Pitt, Streatham, Europe, Jane Duchess of Gordon, Sir William Pulteney, Union, Comet, Glory, and Sarah Christiana.
Philip Dundas, Lieutenant-Governor of Penang died on-board on 8 April 1807, while the Belliqueux was in the Bay of Bengal.
Belliqueux was employed as a prison ship from 1814, and was broken up in 1816.