- Career
- Fate
- Notes, citations, and references
{{otherships|HMS Hector}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Going aboard HMS Hector.jpg | Ship caption=Going aboard Hector in 1891
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=UK | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Hector | Ship ordered=14 January 1771 | Ship builder=Adams, Deptford | Ship laid down=April 1771 | Ship launched=27 May 1774 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours=Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1] | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Broken up, 1816 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[2] | Royal Oak|ship of the line|3}} | Ship tons burthen=1622 (bm) | 168|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 46|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 20|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
- QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
- Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns
| Ship notes=
}} | HMS Hector was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 May 1774 at Deptford.[2]CareerOn 9 May 1801 Hector, {{HMS|Kent|1798|2}}, and {{HMS|Cruelle|1800|2}} unsuccessfully chased the French corvette Heliopolis, which eluded them and slipped into Alexandria.[3] Because Hector served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants.{{#tag:ref|A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[4]|group=Note}} FateHector was converted for use as a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816.[2]Notes, citations, and references- Notes;
1. ^{{London Gazette|issue=21077|pages=791–792|date=15 March 1850}}
2. ^1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
3. ^James (1837), p.93.
4. ^{{London Gazette|page=633 |issue=17915|date=3 April 1823}}
- Citations;
{{reflist|30em}}- References
{{refbegin}}- {{cite book| last = James| first = William| authorlink = William James (naval historian)| year = 1837| title = The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV.| publisher = R. Bentley}}
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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