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Launch of HMS Thunderer

Launch of HMS Thunderer a first rate man of war at Woolwich London

Image courtesy of : http://www.themaritimegallery.co.uk/
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HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich. She earned a battle honour in a single-ship action off Cadiz with the French ship Achille (64 guns) in 1761, during the Seven Years' War.
She foundered in the great hurricane in the West Indies in 1780.
Among the lost sailors were Captain Robert Boyle Nicholas, son of William Nicholas of Froyle, Hants., and Midshipman Nathaniel Cook (1764-1780), the second child of Captain James Cook.
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