| 词条 | French ship Hector (1755) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Hector was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. CareerHector was launched on 23 July 1755, and commissioned under Captain Vilarzel d'Hélie.[1]In 1757, the departed Toulon on 18 March, arriving in Louisbourg on 15 June.[1] Returning to Brest on 23 November with 5000 sick aboard, she spread the typhus to the town;[2] the ensuing epidemic caused 10 000 fatalities.[1] She was then decommissioned and stayed in the reserve in Brest.[1] In July 1762, while cruising off Cap Français, she struck the bottom on a rock. The same spot had been the theatre of the wreck of French ship Dragon (1748) on 17 March of the same year.[3] Between 1763 and 1777, she was decommissioned in Toulon.[1] During the American War of Independence, she reactivated, sailing to the Delaware in July 1778.[1] She arrived at Newport on 8 August 1778.[1] On 14 August 1778, Hector and the 64-gun Vaillant captured the bombship HMS Thunder.[1] The same day, she also captured the 16-gun HMS Senegal at Sandy Hook.[1] Hector then took part in the Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779 and in the Siege of Savannah, before returning to Brest, arriving on 10 December 1779.[1] She was decommissioned in Lorient on 21 December, before rearming and taking part in the Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September 1781.[1]During the Battle of the Saintes, from 9 to 12 April 1782, she battled HMS Canada and Alcide and was captured.[1] He captain, Lavicomté, died in the action.[1] The British took her to Jamaica, where she was repaired and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Hector.[1] She took part in the Action of 5 September 1782, where she was damaged by the frigates Aigle and Gloire.[4] Much damaged in this action and after suffering the 1782 Central Atlantic hurricane of 17 September, she sank on 4 October 1782.[1] The privateer Hawke saved 200 of her crew.[1] See also
Sources and referencesNotes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Roche, p.238 2. ^Épidémie de typhus à Brest en 1757, wiki-brest.net 3. ^Roche, p.156 4. ^Guérin, Les Marins illustres, p.433 References{{Reflist}}Bibliography
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