A 100-gun First Rate ship designed by Sir Thomas Slade, the Surveyor of the Navy
(1755-1771), and built built in 1759-1765 at the Chatham Dockyard for the Royal
Navy.
Dimensions: 151'3"5/8 x 51'10" x 21'62, tonnage: 2162 22/94.
- 1758 December 13
- Ordered to be built.
- 1759 July 23
- Keel laid in the Old Single Dock from 1623 at
Chatham Dockyard.
- 1765 May 7
- Launched by floating her out of the dock. It was
found that she had a permanent list to starboard and 38 tons extra ballast on
the port side was required to right her. The cost for building was £
63.176.
- 1769
- Masted and rigged for conducting seatrials.
- 1778 March 12
- Commissioned.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 32 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 10 x 6 pound guns
Forecastle: 2 x 6 pound guns
- 1778 July 23
- Took part in the Battle at Ushant under admiral
Keppel against the French fleet.
- 1779 April
- Maintenance and re-fitting after a
year at sea and.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 42 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 10 x 6 pound guns
Forecastle: 2 x 6 pound guns
- 1780 March
- Maintenance and re-fitting after a year at sea.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 42 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 10 x 6 pound guns
Poop deck: 6 x 18 pound carronades
Forecastle: 2 x 6 pound guns
2 x 24 pound carronades
- 1782 November - March
- Paid off at Portsmouth and subject to a
Middling Repair.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 42 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 10 x 12 pound guns
Poop deck: 6 x 18 pound carronades
Forecastle: 2 x 12 pound guns
2 x 24 pound carronades
- 1783 March - 1787 November
- Put in reserv at Portsmouth.
- 1787 December -- 1788 April
- Large repair.
- 1789 April -- 1789
- Put in reserv at Portsmouth.
- 1789 -- 1791 August
- Channel service.
- 1797 February 14
- Participated in the Battle of St Vincent under
admiral John Jervis against the Spanish fleet.
- 1797 October
- Paid off at Chatham and was struck from the Navy
List after having been found defective.
- 1797 December 8 -- 1799 January
- Fitted as Hospital Ship at
Chatham Dockyard and served in the Medway.
- 1800 February -- 1803 April
- Large reconstruction at Chatham,
involving among many things closing in of the stern galleries. The cost for the
Large Repair was £ 70.993.
- 1803
- Refitted.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 32 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 12 x 12 pound guns
Forecastle: 2 x 24 pound carronades
- 1803 May -- 1805 April
- Mediterrean service under admiral Horatio
Nelson.
- 1805 August
- General maintenance after 18 months at sea
and re-armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 32 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 12 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 6 x 18 pound carronades
Forecastle: 2 x 12 pound guns
2 x 68 pound carronades
- 1805 October 21
- Participated in the Battle of Trafalgar under
admiral Horatio
Nelson against the joint French and Spanish fleets.
Four days before the battle the muster book listed 441 English, 64 Scots, 63 Irish, 18 Welsh, 3 Shetlanders, 2 Channel Islanders, and 1 Manxman.
The 71 foreigners comprised 22 Americans, 7 Dutch, 6 Swedes, 4 Italians, 4 Maltese,
3 Frenchmen volunteers, 3 Norwegians, 3 Germans, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 2 Danes, 2 Indians, 1 Russian, 1 from Africa and 9 from the West Indian islands.
- 1806 January 15
- Paid off at Chatham.
- 1806 March -- May
- Repairs and recoppering at Chatham. Refitted.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 32 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 24 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 4 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 8 x 32 pound carronades
Forecastle: 2 x 32 pound carronades
- 1806 May -- 1808 March
- Put in ordinary in the Medway.
- 1807 November 11
- Re-rated as a 2nd Rate ship.
- 1807 November
- Refitted.
Armament:
Lower deck: 30 x 32 pound guns
Middel deck: 28 x 18 pound guns
Upper deck: 30 x 12 pound guns
Quarter deck: 8 x 32 pound carronades
Forecastle: 2 x 32 pound carronades
Forecastle: 2 x 12 pound guns
- 1808 April - November
- Baltic service under rear-admiral Sir James
Saumarez.
- 1809 February - December
- Baltic service under
rear-admiral Sir James Saumarez.
- 1810 March - December
- Baltic service under rear-admiral Sir James
Saumarez.
- 1811 May - December
- Baltic service under rear-admiral Sir James
Saumarez.
- 1812 April - November
- Baltic service under rear-admiral Sir James
Saumarez.
- 1812 November 28
- Paid off at Portsmouth.
- 1813 -- 1823
- Put in ordinary.
- 1814 March -- 1816 January 15
- Large reconstruction.
- 1817 February
- Re-rated as a 1st Rate ship.
- 1823 June -- 1824 January
- Re-fitted as a 21-gun Guard ship at
Portsmouth.
- 1863
- Harbour service.
- 1869
- Paid off as Flagship in Portsmouth.
- 1869 -- 1891 August
- Served as tender to the screw 1st Rate
Duke of Wellington.
- 1903 October 23
- Was rammed by the ex. battleship Neptune
and was docked for repairs.
- 1922 January 12
- Placed in the No. 2 Dock at the Portsmouth
Dockyard.
- 1922 March 20
- Beginning of restoration to Trafalgar condition
under the auspicies of the Society for Nautical
Research.