HMS ''Trident'' was a 64-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 ...
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactics in the Age of Sail, naval tactic known as the line of battl ...
of the
Royal Navy
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, launched on 20 April 1768 at
Portsmouth
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.
On 30 January 1772 in Gibraltar harbour during a severe winter storm the Danish ship-of-the-line Prinsesse Wilhelmine Caroline dragged its anchor, colliding with the bow of HMS Trident before running aground.
[Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 p 114]
From April until June 1778 she was under the command of
John Inglis.
For some of the period between 1793 and 1796, she was under the command of Captain
Theophilus Jones.
''Trident'' was sold out of the navy in 1816.
Notes
References
*Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
Citations
*T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“. Two volumes. Downloa
Volume 1an
Volume 2
Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Exeter-class ships of the line
1768 ships
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