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Venerable, 1784
Type: Third rate: ship, small ; Armament 74-gun
Launched : 1784 ;
Disposal date or year : 24 Nov 1804
Disposal Details : Wrecked on sunken rocks in Torbay : crew saved Captain John Hunter. (Vol iii, Appendix No 31)
Notes:
Feb 1795 a small British squadron, under the orders of Vice-admiral Adam Duncan, in the 74-gun ship Venerable, was despatched to the North Sea, to watch the motions of the Dutch fleet lying in the Texel.
May 1797 remained off the Texel during the mutiny on the Nore command.
3 Oct 1797 arrived Yarmouth from off the Texel to victual and store etc.
9 Oct 1797 sailed from Yarmouth for the Texel. 11 Oct 1797 engaged the Dutch fleet in what was to be known as the Battle of Camperdown (Admiral Duncan).
4 Jun 1799 arrived off Basque road.
Plymouth 21 Mar 1801 Sailed for Torbay.
13 Jun 1801 chased the two French 40-gun frigates Libre and Indienne in to the road of Cadiz.
5 Jul 1801 sailed from off Cadiz for Algeziras roads where, on the 6th, the squadron engaged a small French squadron protected shore batteries, during which severe action the Hannibal went aground and was lost to the Spanish and French :
details of casualties sustained in the action.
12 Jul 1801 sailed Gibraltar to chase a Franco-Spanish squadron observed sailing from Algeziras. 12th-13th the engagement commenced resulting in the destruction of 2 first rates, and the capture of a 3rd rate.