Built as a third rate ship-of-the-line by William Barnard at Deptford Green.
01 January 1782 ordered.
13 August 1782 keel laid down.
30 October 1784 launched as the HMS TREMENDOUS one of the Ganges class.
Tonnage 1,680 ton (bm), dim. 170.4 x 47.7 x 20.4ft.
Armament: Lower deck 28 – 32 pdrs., upper deck 28 – 18 pdrs., quarter deck 14 – 9 pdrs. and forecastle 4 – 9 pdrs. guns.
Crew 590.
28 January 1785 was she completed in Deptford.
April 1785 was she coppered and fitted out.
October 1790 fitted out again in Chatham, and then laid up.
March 1793 commissioned under command of Captain James Pigot a unit of Howe’s fleet.
27 October 1793 she joined the Channel Fleet sailed out in search of the French fleet, the fleet did have a brief skirmish with a French squadron.
Mid December 1793 the fleet had returned to Spithead.
01 June 1794 took part in the Battle of the Glorious First of June off Ushant, three men were killed on board and 8 wounded.
13 June 1794 the fleet arrived back in home ports.
Later that year she came under command of Captain William Bentinck.
March 1795 under command of Captain William Hope.
June 1795 under command of Captain Samuel Ballard.
1796 Command was taken over by Captain John Aylmer, as flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Pringle, and she sailed on 01 May 1796 from England to the Cape of Good Hope.
June 1796 command taken over by Captain Charles Brisbane.
17 August 1796 she took part in the capture of the Dutch squadron under command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas, the British captured 9 Dutch ships, not any shot was fired and there were not men killed or wounded in both squadrons.
1797 There was a mutiny on board in the harbour on the Cape Station.
1789 Under command of Captain John Searle as flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Hugh Christian, still at the Cape of Good Hope station.
25 April 1799 she under command of Captain Osborn together with the JUPITER and ADAMANT recaptured off the Isle of France (Mauritius), the CHANGE a merchant vessel which was loaded with rice.
The prize was later lost off Madagascar.
07 May 1799 she detained the Prussian ship THREE BROTHERS loaded with naval stores from Bordeaux, when she tried to enter Port Louis, Ile de France.
10 May 1799 she with the other two British warships retake the American ship PACIFIC which was loaded with bale good and sugar who had been run ashore by the French near the River Noir, Isle of France.
11 December the TREMENDOUS and ADAMANT gave chase to the French frigate La PRENEUSE, which did ran ashore near the west side of the River Tombeau about 3 miles off Port Louis.
The same cruise she captured the Spanish brig N S DEL CARMEN loaded with indigo, coffee and bale goods, which had sailed from Ile de France bound for Rio de la Plata.
After firing many broadsides in her, the boats of the two ships captured her set her on fire, thereafter she exploded and was destroyed.
1803 Stationed in the East Indies.
21 April 1806 she came in action against the French 40 gun La CONNIERRE, the action was inconclusive.
1807 In ordinary at Chatham, U.K.
From 1807 – 1811 rebuilt at Chatham Drydock with Sepping’s diagonal frames.
After rebuilt 1706 ton (bm), dim. 170.11 x 48. x 20.4ft.
December 1810 commissioned, under command of Captain Robert Cambell, first with Gore’s squadron off Lorient.
1811/12 Used for convoy escort or patrol duty in the English Channel and North Sea.
15 August 1812 sailed from Portsmouth for the Mediterranean.
July 1814 remains in Malta, and made some cruises in the Mediterranean.
11 September 1815 arrived again in Portsmouth and was paid off in August/September 1815.
From April 1816 until September 1819 small repairs were made in Chatham.
1822 – 1842 Used as receiving ship in Sheerness.
23 May 1845 renamed in GRAMPUS, where after she was cut down to 50 gun 4th Rate frigate and fitted out for sea at Woolwich from May 1844 – January 1846.
November 1866 fitted out as a powder depot hulk in Portsmouth.
December 1883 lent to the War Department for the stowage of naval mines.
19 May 1897 sold for £1,605 to John Read at Portsmouth, most probably for scrapping.
Angola 1996 12,000k sgMS1183, scott964.
Source: British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Rif Winfield. http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhill ... p?ref=2266 various other web-sites.
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