HMS_Thunderer_(1760)

HMS <i>Thunderer</i> (1760)

HMS Thunderer (1760)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

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

HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich.[1] 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.

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One of two cannons attributed to HMS Thunderer, displayed at a rum cake factory on Grand Cayman Island
Descriptive plaque at a cannon attributed to Thunderer

She foundered in the Great Hurricane of 1780 in the West Indies,[1] reportedly 90 miles east of Jamaica on the Formigas Banks with the loss of all 617 on board.[2] Among the lost sailors were the Captain, Robert Boyle-Walsingham (1736–1780), and Midshipman Nathaniel Cook (1764–1780), the second child of Captain James Cook.

Two cannons attributed to the ship are displayed at a rum cake factory on Grand Cayman Island. A plaque states that they were recovered in 1984 by the research vessel Beacon.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
  2. [2]
    Tippin, pp. 45–50

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References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
  • Tippin, G. Lee; Humphreys, Jr., Herbert (1989). In search of the Golden Madonna: the treasure finders of the RV Beacon. Daring Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-93893-686-2.


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