HMS Culloden (1776)

	Engraving of HMS Culloden
History
Great Britain
Name	Culloden
Ordered	30 November 1769
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	July 1770
Launched	18 May 1776
Fate	Ran aground 23 January 1781 on Culloden Point, Montauk, New York and destroyed to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy.
Notes	Participated in:; Battle of Cape St Vincent;
General characteristics
Class and type	Culloden-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1659 (bm)
Length	170 ft (52 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 2 in (14.38 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 11 in (6.07 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	650 officers and men
Armament	74 guns:; Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs; Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs;
	H.M.S. Culloden Shipwreck Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Montauk, New York
Coordinates	41°4′20.5″N 71°57′38.3″W / 41.072361°N 71.960639°W
NRHP reference No.	79003795
Added to NRHP	5 March 1979

HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard, England, and launched on 18 May 1776.^[1] She was the fourth warship to be named after the Battle of Culloden, which took place in Scotland in 1746 and saw the defeat of the Jacobite rising.

She served with the Channel Fleet during the American War of Independence. May, 1778 under command of Capt. George Balfour.^[3] She saw action at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, before being sent out to the West Indies. Her stay there was brief, sailing for New York City with Admiral Rodney in August 1780 to join the North American station. The ship's specific duties were to blockade the French at Newport, Rhode Island where a French army of 6,000 had disembarked in July 1780.^{[citation needed]}

Diorama of *Culloden* wreck at the Marine Museum

Cannon retrieved from *Culloden* on display at the East Hampton Marine Museum in Amagansett, New York

On 23 January 1781, while trying to intercept French ships attempting to run the blockade at Newport, Rhode Island, Culloden encountered severe weather and ran aground at North Neck Point (Will's Point) in Montauk.^[4] All attempts to refloat the vessel were unsuccessful,^{[citation needed]} but all the crew were saved, and Culloden's masts were taken aboard HMS Bedford.^[5] The area is today known as Culloden Point.

^ ^a ^b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 180.
^ NRHP, New York.
^ "NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF The American Revolution" (PDF). history.navy.mil. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ Holden, Albert R. (2000) [1983]. A Pictorial History of Montauk (3rd ed.). Montauk: Holden's Publications. p. 15.
^ Ships of the Old Navy, Culloden.

[Lavery,_SoLv1_p180-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 180.

[NRHP-2] NRHP, New York.

[3] "NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF The American Revolution" (PDF). history.navy.mil. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

[4] Holden, Albert R. (2000) [1983]. A Pictorial History of Montauk (3rd ed.). Montauk: Holden's Publications. p. 15.

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History
Engraving of HMS Culloden
Great Britain
Name	Culloden
Ordered	30 November 1769
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	July 1770
Launched	18 May 1776
Fate	Ran aground 23 January 1781 on Culloden Point, Montauk, New York and destroyed to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy.
Notes	Participated in: Battle of Cape St Vincent
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type	Culloden-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1659 (bm)
Length	170 ft (52 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 2 in (14.38 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 11 in (6.07 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	650 officers and men
Armament	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

H.M.S. Culloden Shipwreck Site^[2]
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Nearest city	Montauk, New York
Coordinates	41°4′20.5″N 71°57′38.3″W / 41.072361°N 71.960639°W / 41.072361; -71.960639
NRHP reference No.	79003795
Added to NRHP	5 March 1979

HMS Culloden (1776)

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