HMS Panther (1758)

HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.

[1] She served during the Seven Years' War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila.

On 31 October 1761 Panther and the Coventry-class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour action, loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.

[2] Panther was fitted as a prison hulk at Plymouth Dockyard from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.

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Plan of the attack against Fort Louis (now Fort George), at Point à Pitre , Guadeloupe by a squadron, detached from Commodore Moore and commanded by Captain Wm. Harman of HMS Berwick on 14 February 1759. Showing Panther
Battle of the Dutch ship Mars , against the English warships Monarch , Panther and Sybille (near Sint Eustatius Island, in the action of 4 February 1781