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TERRIBLE
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3rd rate
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Built in 1762, Harwich.
Burnt as unseaworthy in 1791. |
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- 1762 Capt. Peter PARKER.
- 1770 Capt. Marriot ARBUTHNOT, Guardship at Portsmouth for three years.
- 1777 Sir Richard BICKERTON, until the French actually declared war TERRIBLE was employed as a cruising ship restraining American trade, in April he captured an American privateer of 16 guns called the Rising States.
- On 27 July he took part in the encounter with the Count d'Orvilliers off Ushant, being second to the leading ship and having 30 men killed and wounded.
- In the following April, in company with RAMILLIES, she fell in with a French convoy of 30 merchant ships, richly laden from the West Indies, under convoy of three frigates. The warships escaped, but eight of the merchant ships fell into the hands of Sir Richard and his companion.
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