Name HMS Hercules Tons burthen 1608 ⁄94 (bm) Launched 15 March 1759 Beam 14 m | Ordered 15 July 1756 Depth of hold 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) Length 51 m | |
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Fate Sold out of the service, 1784 Class and type | ||
HMS Hercules was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1759 at Deptford Dockyard.
The ship took part in the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782 against a French fleet, where she suffered six killed and 18 wounded. She was the third ship in the part of the British line of battle which broke the enemy's line astern of the French flagship Ville de Paris.
She was sold out of the service in 1784.
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