- Notes
- References
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}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Hercules | Ship ordered=15 July 1756 | Ship builder=Deptford Dockyard | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=15 March 1759 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold out of the service, 1784 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Hercules|ship of the line|3}} | {{fraction>34|94}} (bm) | 166|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 46|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 19|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*74 guns:- Lower gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
- Quarter deck: 14 × 9 pdrs
- Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
| Ship notes=
}} | HMS Hercules was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1759 at Deptford Dockyard.[1]The ship took part in the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782 against a French fleet, where she suffered six killed and 18 wounded. She was the third ship in the part of the British line of battle which broke the enemy's line astern of the French flagship Ville de Paris.[2] She was sold out of the service in 1784.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
2. ^Willis, Fighting Ships 1750-1850, p. 50
References{{refbegin}}- 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}}.
- Willis, Sam (2007) Fighting Ships 1750-1850 Quercus. {{ISBN|1-84724-171-9}}.
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