HMS_Panther_(1758)

HMS <i>Panther</i> (1758)

HMS Panther (1758)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Panther.

HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]

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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 the Coventry-class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.[2]

Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.[1]

Plan of the attack against Fort Louis (now Fort George), at Point à Pitre, Guadeloupe by a squadron, detached from Commodore Moore and commanded by Captain Wm. Harman of HMS Berwick on 14 February 1759. Showing Panther
Battle of the Dutch ship Mars, against the English warships Monarch, Panther and Sybille (near Sint Eustatius Island, in the action of 4 February 1781

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p. 177.
  2. [2]
    Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press. pp. 75–76. ISBN 0859894266.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.


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