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HMS ''Hero'' was a 74-gun
''Hero'' (74) (1803)
Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 12 September 2007. Later in the same year ''Hero'' was a part of the squadron commanded by Captain Sir Richard Strachan that won the Battle of Cape Ortegal.Winfield, British Warships. On 25 December 1811 ''Hero'', under captain James Newman-Newman, was wrecked on the Haak Sands at the mouth of the Texel during a gale, with the loss of all but 12 of her crew.
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
of the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
, launched on 18 August 1803 at Blackwall Yard
Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years. The yard closed in 1987.
History
East India Company
Blackwall was a sh ...
.Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p185.
She took part in Admiral Robert Calder
Admiral Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, (2 July 174531 August 1818) was a British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. For much of his career ...
's action at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805.Michael Phillips''Hero'' (74) (1803)
Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 12 September 2007. Later in the same year ''Hero'' was a part of the squadron commanded by Captain Sir Richard Strachan that won the Battle of Cape Ortegal.Winfield, British Warships. On 25 December 1811 ''Hero'', under captain James Newman-Newman, was wrecked on the Haak Sands at the mouth of the Texel during a gale, with the loss of all but 12 of her crew.
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References
* * Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. . * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hero (1803), Hms Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Fame-class ships of the line 1803 ships Ships built by the Blackwall Yard Maritime incidents in 1811 Shipwrecks in the North Sea