The Arrogant-class ships of the line were a class of twelve 74-gun third-rate ships that served in the Royal Navy. The ships were built in two batches; the first pair during the 1760s and the others during the 1780s.
Design and description The Arrogant-class ships were designed as a development of the co-Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Thomas Slade's previous , sharing the same basic dimensions.Winfield, p. 64 It was one of the "common" type of 74 with lighter guns than those of the "large" classes.Lavery, p. 176 Two ships were ordered on 13 December 1758 to this design (at the same time as the fourth and fifth units of the Bellona class), and a further ten ships were built to a slightly modified version of the design from 1773 onwards.
The design measured on the gundeck and on the keel. It had a beam of , a depth of hold of and had a tonnage of 1,614 tons burthen. The ships' crew numbered 550, for the first batch, or 600, for the second batch, officers and ratings. They were fitted with three masts and were ship-rigged.
The ships were armed with 74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns that consisted of twenty-eight 32-pounder guns on their lower gundeck and twenty-eight 18-pounder guns on their upper deck. Their forecastle mounted four 9-pounder guns. On their quarterdeck they carried fourteen 9-pounder guns.Winfield, pp. 64, 77
Ships
Ship name Builder Ordered Laid down Launched Completed Fate John Barnard, Harwich 13 December 1758 March 1759 22 January 1761 28 April 1761 Sold at Bombay to be broken up, 1810 William Wells, Deptford 13 December 1758 19 February 1759 19 May 1761 16 September 1761 Burnt or scuttled as unserviceable at St Lucia, 30 June 1780 Woolwich Dockyard 25 August 1774 -Nul 30 June 1779 Broken up, 1835 Deptford Dockyard 21 February 1778 19 October 1781 Broken up, 1815 Barnard, Deptford 19 June 1782 25 June 1785 Broken up, 1816 Randall, Rotherhithe 23 July 1785 Broken up, 1815 Parsons, Bursledon 27 December 1781 24 August 1786 Broken up, 1830 Graves, Frindsbury 11 January 1782 6 October 1786 Sold out of the service, 1836 Raymond, Northam 22 December 1781 22 November 1786 Broken up, 1868 Deptford Dockyard 9 December 1779 6 March 1787 Broken up, 1821 Graham, Harwich 9 August 1781 27 November 1787 Broken up, 1835 Henry Adams, Bucklers Hard 31 December 1781 7 July 1789 Grounded in gale near Livorno (Leghorn) and burnt, 28 March 1795
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