Name HMS Superb Laid down 12 April 1758 Fate Sank, 1783 Launched 27 October 1760 | Ordered 28 December 1757 Commissioned November 1760 Construction started 12 April 1758 Draft 6.55 m | |
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HMS Superb was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 October 1760 at Deptford Dockyard.
The Superb was Admiral Edward Hughes's flagship in India in 1782 during a notable series of engagements with the French under Suffren.
On 20 June 1783 the Superb took part in the Battle of Cuddalore before returning to Bombay for copper sheathing along her hull. On 7 November she developed a severe leak through the sheathing into the bilge, and sank in Tellicherry Roads off the Bombay coast.
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