HMS Panther (1758)

History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Panther
Ordered	25 May 1756
Builder	Martin and Henniker, Chatham
Laid down	June 1756
Launched	22 June 1758
Commissioned	3 September 1758
In service	1758–1765; 1771–1774; 1777–1783; 1807–1813;
Fate	Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard, November 1813
General characteristics
Class and type	Edgar-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	128559⁄94 bm
Length	154 ft 0 in (46.94 m) (gundeck); 127 ft 0 in (38.71 m) (keel);
Beam	43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	420
Armament	60 guns:; Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs; Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs;

HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.^[1]

She served during the Seven Years' War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila. On 31 October 1761 Panther and the Coventry-class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.^[2]

Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p. 177.
^ Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press. pp. 75–76. ISBN 0859894266.

Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.