Thunderer

Posted by Jon Miller on Friday 26th of June 2026 15:56

Corke, 10 June 1765: Last Friday and Saturday the 29th (Lord Forbes’s) 52d (Gen Clavering’s) and the 59th (Gen Owen’s) Regiments were embarked on board the Thunderer, Capt Hood; Belleisle, Capt Hartwell, and four transports for North-America. They are three very compleat battalions,the men well chosen, went off with great chearfulness, and behaved remarkably well while in quarters. Women and children were permitted to go. The 29th are to be stationed at Halifax and Nova-Scotia; the 52d at Quebec, and the 59th at St John’s, in Newfoundland and Cape Breton. [Exeter Mercury, 28 June 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Friday 26th of June 2026 04:15

Boston, New England, 8 August 1765: Monday arrived here Capt Pitt, in a schooner from Quebec, but last from Halifax; by whom we learn that his Majesty’s ship Thunderer, of 74 guns, was arriv’d at Halifax from Ireland, with 500 troops, to relieve those which have been in Nova-Scotia several years. [Exeter Evening Post, 26 September 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Thursday 25th of June 2026 03:41

London, 26 September 1765: His Majesty’s ship the Thunderer , Capt Hood, lately returned from Nova Scotia, is ordered to be paid off at Portsmouth. [Exeter Evening Post, 3 October 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 24th of June 2026 17:45

Portsmouth, 5 May 1765: On Friday, about sixty men, from the different ships the harbour, who had been ordered on board his Majesty’s ship Thunderer about a week since to help rigg her, and to assist in working her out to Spithead, where they safely moored her, were put into a long-boat to be conveyed on board their respective ships in the harbour; when (unhappily for the poor souls) the boat had not gone far from the ship before she went down stern foremost, and foundered; and notwithstanding all possible assistance from he different ship’s boats lying at Spithead, thirty-eight men, five women and a child, were drowned, and only sixteen saved. It is imagined they put too great a number of hands in her, which occasioned the above accident; a piece of imprudence too often practised. There was little breeze of wind at the time, and a large swell. [Ipswich Journal, 11 May 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 24th of June 2026 04:11

London, 18 May 1765: We are informed that his Majesty’s ship Thunderer is neither to proceed for the Guinea or West-India stations, but after taking in a regiment of foot at Corke in Ireland, will sail for Quebec in North-America, and from thence to England, with troops which are ordered hme from that province. [Exeter Mercury, 24 May 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 24th of June 2026 02:52

London, 11 May: We hear his Majesty’s ship Thunderer is not to sail for the coast of Africa, but will proceed, in a few days, for the Windward Island station in the West Indies, being intended as a flag ship for Admiral Keppel. [Exeter Mercury, 17 May 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Monday 22nd of June 2026 18:36

Portsmouth: His Majesty’s ship the Arrogant, of 74 guns; the Courageux, of 74, and the Sasia, of 60 guns, are going to be put in commission; but where destined is not known, but imagined for the East-Indies. The Thunderer of 74 guns, appointed for the West-Indies, is now countermanded, and ordered into harbour, the first fair wind as a guard-ship. [Exeter Mercury, 25 January 1765]

Posted by Jon Miller on Thursday 28th of May 2026 20:31

London, 16 February 1801: The Diligence brig, of 16 guns, was lately lost on a ridge of rocks, off the NW side of Cuba; the officers and crew escaped from wreck to a small island, where, with wretched accommodation, they remained three days, when the Thunderer, of 74 guns, hove in sight and picked them up. Previously to this, however, the Spaniards, who had witnessed their condition, sent an armed vessel for the purpose of making Capt Ross and his people prisoners, but the boats of the Thunderer fortunately fell with, and captured her. London Packet, 16 February 1801]

Posted by Des grant on Saturday 6th of January 2018 19:53

there was two Richard boyle'S onboard . RBW commodore. RBN captain. They were related. The commodore's flag was flying , as commander of the small squadron , RBN was captain . Both died. Captain cook's 16 year old son (mid) was onboard. Nathaniel

Posted by Des grant on Saturday 6th of January 2018 19:46

there was two Richard boyle'S onboard . RBW commodore. RBN captain. They were related. The commodore's flag was flying , as commander of the small squadron , RBN was captain . Both died. Captain cook's 16 year old son (mid) was onboard. Nathaniel