HMS Arrogant (1761)

Arrogant
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Arrogant
Ordered13 December 1758
BuilderJohn Barnard & John Turner, Harwich Dockyard
Laid downMarch 1759
Launched22 January 1761
CommissionedJanuary 1761
FateSold out of service, 1810
General characteristics
Class and typeArrogant-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1,6445494 bm
Length
  • 168 ft 3 in (51.28 m) (gundeck)
  • 138 ft 0 in (42.06 m) (keel)
Beam47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Arrogant was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built of Suffolk oak[1] by John Barnard and launched on 22 January 1761 at King's Yard Harwich. She was the first of the Arrogant-class ships of the line, designed by Sir Thomas Slade.[2]

  1. ^ Famous Fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p.104
  2. ^ Winfield 2007, pp. 63–64