Name HMS Thunderer Fate Wrecked, 1780 Launched 19 March 1760 | Ordered 15 July 1756 Tons burthen 1609 ⁄94 (bm) | |
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Length 166 ft 6 in (50.75 m) (gundeck) | ||
HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich. She earned a battle honour in a single-ship action off Cadiz with the French ship Achille (64 guns) in 1761, during the Seven Years' War.
She foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies in 1780.
Among the lost sailors were Captain Robert Boyle Nicholas, son of William Nicholas of Froyle, Hants., and Midshipman Nathaniel Cook (1764-1780), the second child of Captain James Cook.
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