- Source: Ardent-class ship of the line
The Ardent-class ships of the line were a class of seven 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.
Design
Slade based the design of the Ardent class on the captured French ship Fougueux.
Ships
HMS Ardent
Builder: Blades, Hull
Ordered: 16 December 1761
Launched: 13 August 1764
Fate: Sold out of the service, 1784
HMS Raisonnable
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 11 January 1763
Launched: 10 December 1768
Fate: Broken up, 1815
HMS Agamemnon
Builder: Adams, Bucklers Hard
Ordered: 8 April 1777
Launched: 10 April 1781
Fate: Wrecked, 1809
HMS Belliqueux
Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard
Ordered: 19 February 1778
Launched: 5 June 1780
Fate: Broken up, 1816
HMS Stately
Builder: Raymond, Northam
Ordered: 10 December 1778
Launched: 27 December 1784
Fate: Broken up, 1814
HMS Indefatigable
Builder: Adams, Bucklers Hard
Ordered: 3 August 1780
Launched: July 1784
Fate: Broken up, 1816
HMS Nassau
Builder: Hilhouse, Bristol
Ordered: 14 November 1782
Launched: 28 September 1785
Fate: Wrecked, 1799
References
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- Ardent-class ship of the line
- HMS Agamemnon (1781)
- HMS Raisonnable (1768)
- HMS Indefatigable (1784)
- HMS Ardent (1764)
- Crown-class ship of the line
- HMS Nassau (1785)
- HMS Belliqueux (1780)
- List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy
- List of ships of the line of France
