HMS Vigilant (1774)
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| Name: | HMS Vigilant |
| Ordered: | 14 January 1771 |
| Builder: | Adams, Bucklers Hard |
| Laid down: | February 1771 |
| Launched: | 6 October 1774 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1816 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Intrepid-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1347 bm |
| Length: | 159 ft 6 in (48.62 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 44 ft 4 in (13.51 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Vigilant was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 October 1774 at Bucklers Hard.
By 1779 she had been deemed unseaworthy by the navy. She was stripped of her sails and used as a floating battery to support the amphibious landing of British Army troops on Port Royal Island, South Carolina prior to the Battle of Beaufort. From 1799 she served as a prison ship, and was broken up in 1816.
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