HMS ''Trident'' was a 64-gun

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, launched on 20 April 1768 at

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. On 30 January 1772 in Gibraltar harbour during a severe winter storm the Danish ship-of-the-line Prinsesse Wilhelmine Caroline dragged its anchor, colliding with the bow of HMS Trident before running aground.Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 p 114 From April until June 1778 she was under the command of John Inglis. For some of the period between 1793 and 1796, she was under the command of Captain Theophilus Jones. ''Trident'' was sold out of the navy in 1816.

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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. .

Citations

*T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“. Two volumes. Downloa
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