13-431: Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero : HMS Hero (1759) , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810 HMS Hero (1803) , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1803 and wrecked on 25 December 1811, with the loss of all her crew, inside the northern Haaks about five or six miles from
26-465: A specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Hero&oldid=1169776470 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Royal Navy ship names Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from December 2016 Use British English from December 2016 Articles with short description Short description
39-589: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles HMS Hero (1759) HMS Hero was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , designed by Sir Thomas Slade built by Thomas Bucknall at Plymouth Dockyard and launched on 28 March 1759. She was the only ship built to her draught. Hero and HMS Venus captured the French East Indiaman Bertin on 3 April 1761 and sent her into Plymouth. There
52-628: The Texel HMS ; Hero (1816) , a 74-gun third rate launched in September 1816, renamed Wellington in December, becoming the training ship Akbar in 1862 and broken up 1908 HMS Hero (1858) , a screw-propelled 91-gun second rate, launched in 1858 and sold 1871. This was the vessel in which the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) sailed on his tour of Canada and
65-452: The seventy-four gun ship , which eventually came to be the most popular size of large ship for navies of several different nations. It was an easier ship to handle than a first- or second-rate ship, but still possessed enough firepower to potentially destroy any single opponent other than a three-decker . It was also cheaper to operate. By the end of the 18th century, ships of the line were usually categorized directly by their number of guns,
78-414: The 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker ). When the rating system was first established in the 1620s, the third rate was defined as those ships having at least 200 but not more than 300 men; previous to this, the type had been classified as "middling ships". By the 1660s, the means of classification had shifted from the number of men to
91-472: The Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 . Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900 . Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6 . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for
104-645: The Royal Navy purchased her and commissioned as the third rate Belleisle . From 1763 to 1767 Hero was commanded by Captain Paul Ourry . She had a part in the Battle of Porto Praya , a naval battle that took place during the American Revolutionary War on 16 April 1781, between a British squadron under Commodore George Johnstone and a French squadron under the Bailli de Suffren. Under
117-486: The United States in 1860 HMS Hero (1885) , a Conqueror -class turret ship launched in 1885 and sunk as a target in 1908 HMS Hero (H99) , an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to Canada as HMCS Chaudiere in 1943, broken up 1946 See also [ edit ] Hero (pinnace) , a steam-powered boat There were also at least three hired armed vessels that bore
130-545: The command of Captain Theophilus Jones , she took part in the 1783 Battle of Cuddalore . She was converted to a prison ship in 1793, and was eventually broken up in 1810. This article about a ship of the line of the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy , a third rate was a ship of the line which from
143-506: The name Hero . There were two cutters and one lugger . The 1970s BBC television drama series Warship was set aboard a fictional Royal Navy Leander -class frigate , HMS Hero . Citations [ edit ] ^ Gossett (1986), p.82. References [ edit ] Colledge, J. J. ; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of
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#1732802005332156-480: The number of carriage-mounted guns, and third rates at that time mounted between 48 and 60 guns. By the turn of the century, the criterion boundaries had increased and third rate carried more than 60 guns, with second rates having between 90 and 98 guns, while first rates had 100 guns or more, and fourth rates between 48 and 60 guns. By the latter half of the 18th century, they carried between 500 and 720 men. This designation became especially common because it included
169-488: The numbers even being used as the name of the class, as in "a squadron of three 74s", but officially the rating system continued until the end of the Age of Sail , only undergoing a modification in 1817. Note that the use of terms like "third-rate" in literature can lead to confusion: The French Navy had a different system of five rates or rangs , but some British authors use the Royal Navy's rating of "third rate" when speaking of
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