HMS Valiant (1759)

HMS Valiant was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, modelled on the captured French ship Invincible and launched on 1 August 1759 at Chatham Dockyard.

[1] Her construction, launch and fitting-out are the theme of the 'Wooden Walls' visitor experience at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

She served under Augustus Keppel during the Seven Years' War,[1] and was with him at the Capture of Havana, in 1763.

[1] Valiant also served under Admiral Prince William in 1789 and fought at the Glorious First of June in 1794.

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Perspective (bow) View of the Valiant Man of War (ship model)
Valiant taking the French Cato and Jason on 19 April 1782, in the Mona Passage, near the west end of Porto Rico