Name HMS Panther Laid down June 1756 Construction started June 1756 | Ordered 25 May 1756 Commissioned 3 September 1758 Launched 22 June 1758 | |
Builder Martin and Henniker, Chatham In service 1758–1765
1771–1774
1777–1783
1807–1813 | ||
HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.
She served during the Seven Years' War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila. On 31 October 1761 Panther and Coventry Class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish Galleon Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.
Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.
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