HMS Centaur (1759) 

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Career (France) French Royal Navy Ensign
Name: Centaure
Launched: 1757
Captured: 18 August 1759, by Royal Navy
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Centaur
Acquired: 18 August 1759
Fate: Wrecked, 1782
General characteristics 1
Class and type: 74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1739 tons (1766.9 tonnes)
Length: 175 ft 8 in (53.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 5 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 74 guns of various weights of shot

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Centaur and French ship Centaure.

Centaure was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1757.

She was captured at the Battle of Lagos2 by the Royal Navy on 18 August 1759, and commissioned as the third rate HMS Centaur.1

In September of 1782, the Centaur was one of the ships escorting prizes back to Britain from Jamaica, when she foundered during a severe gale near the Newfoundland Banks. Captain Ingleford, along with eleven of his crew, survived the wreck in one of the ship's pinnaces, arriving at the Azores after 16 days.2

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p178.
  2. ^ a b Ships of the Old Navy, Centaur.

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