HMS Warrior (1781)
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HMS Warrior was a 74-gun Alfred-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1781 at Portsmouth.[1]
Service history
A year after her launch she took part in the Battle of the Saintes captained by Sir James Wallace.[2] She fought in the van of Admiral Sir George Rodney's fleet, taking twenty-six total casualties.[3] Through this action Warrior lost her main topmast two days later.[4] In July she transported Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Pigot to America.[2] Warrior was laid up at Portsmouth between 1784 and 1795.
In 1801, she was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen. Warrior then joined the Channel fleet off Brest to assist in deterring French invasion.
In 1805, she was part of Admiral Robert Calder's fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre under Samuel Hood Linzee. Later in December of that year she was involved in towing Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". to Spithead.[3] By 1806 she was assisting Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in attacking coastal trade around Ferrol and Vigo.[5] In December Warrior became flagship in the Channel.
From 1809 to 1811 Warrior was based in the Mediterranean. In October 1809 she assisted in capturing the islands of Zante and Cephalonia to stop the French from using them as outposts, with her guns covering the advance of the invasion force.[5]
While under the command of Captain the Viscount Torrington in 1813, Warrior was the ship chosen to convey Prince Frederick of the Netherlands to his homeland for the first time.[6]
On 10 August 1815, Warrior collided with the British merchant ship George in the Atlantic Ocean. George foundered with the loss of four lives. Warrior rescued her survivors.[7][8][9] In the same year Warrior served as the flagship of John Erskine Douglas on the Jamaica Station.[2]
Fate
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Warrior was laid up in September 1815 at Chatham. She became a receiving ship in August 1819 and was a temporary quarantine ship in 1831.[2] She was fitted as a prison ship after 1840, and was eventually broken up in December 1857 at Woolwich.[1]
Citations
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References
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- Clowes, William Laird (1898) The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900 Volume Three. Sampson Low, Marston and Company. Template:ISBN
- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. Template:ISBN.
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