HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1785 at Rotherhithe.

[1] In December 1813 she was paid off and placed in ordinary at Sheerness Dockyard.

She remained out of service until 1829, other than a nine-month period between August 1822 and May 1823 when she acted as a receiving ship for volunteers and pressed men.

Declared surplus even to this limited requirement, she was brought to Deptford Dockyard and broken up in March 1836.

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