HMS ''Hero'' was a 74-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
Rating
When the rating system was f ...
of the
Royal Navy
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, launched on 18 August 1803 at
Blackwall Yard
Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years. The yard closed in 1987.
History
East India Company
Blackwall was a sh ...
.
[Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 185.]
She took part in Admiral
Robert Calder
Admiral Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, (2 July 174531 August 1818) was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. For much of his career he w ...
's action at the
Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805.
[Michael Phillips]
''Hero'' (74) (1803)
Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 12 September 2007. Later in the same year ''Hero'' was a part of the squadron commanded by Captain
Sir Richard Strachan that won the
Battle of Cape Ortegal.
[Winfield, British Warships.]
On 25 December 1811 ''Hero'', under captain
James Newman-Newman, was wrecked on the Haak Sands at the mouth of the
Texel
Texel (; Texels dialect: ) is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,643 in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is situated north of Den ...
during a gale, with the loss of all but 12 of her crew.
Citations
References
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* Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
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Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
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Maritime incidents in 1811
Shipwrecks in the North Sea