HMS Thunderer (1760)

	Model of a 74-gun ship, 3rd rate, circa 1760. Thought to be either HMS Hercules or HMS Thunderer from 1760.
History
Great Britain
Name	Thunderer
Ordered	15 July 1756
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched	19 March 1760
Fate	Wrecked, 1780
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Tons burthen	160933⁄94 (bm)
Length	166 ft 6 in (50.75 m) (gundeck)
Beam	46 ft 6 in (14.17 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full rigged ship
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs; Quarter deck: 14 × 9 pdrs; Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs;

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.

She foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies in 1780.^[1]

Among the lost sailors were Captain Robert Boyle Nicholas,^[2] son of William Nicholas of Froyle, Hants, and Midshipman Nathaniel Cook (1764–1780), the second child of Captain James Cook.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
^ Pedigree of Nicholas, of Winterbourne Earls. p. 96.

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.

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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p176-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.

[2] Pedigree of Nicholas, of Winterbourne Earls. p. 96.

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