HMS Intrepid (1747)

Stern view of Intrepid
History
France
Name	Sérieux
Ordered	6 February 1738
Builder	René Boyer & Pierre-Blaise Coulomb, Toulon
Laid down	4 October 1738
Launched	26 October 1740
Commissioned	May 1741
Captured	14 May 1747, by Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name	Intrepid
Acquired	14 May 1747
Fate	Broken up, 2 August 1765
General characteristics
Class and type	64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,286 bm
Length	47.10 m (154 ft 6 in) (gundeck) 42.23 m (138 ft 7 in) (keel)
Beam	12.99 m (42 ft 7 in)
Draught	6.50 / 6.74 m (21 ft 4 in / 22 ft 1 in)
Depth of hold	6.28 m (20 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	460
Armament	64 guns: Lower gun deck: 26 x 24 pdrs Upper gun deck: 28 x 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 x 6 pdrs Forecastle: 4 x 12 pdrs

HMS Intrepid was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, originally built in Toulon for the French Navy. She was launched in 1740, as Sérieux and fought at the Battle of Toulon before her capture by the British at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747. After being renamed and refitted by the Royal Navy, she entered British service in late 1747. Between 1748 and 1752 she was assigned as a guard ship off the coast of Kent in south-east England.

In 1756 she joined the Mediterranean fleet and was heavily damaged at the Battle of Minorca, one of the first naval battles of the Seven Years' War, where she suffered 45 casualties. After undergoing repairs and a further refit, during which she was reduced to a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line, Intrepid rejoined the Seven Years' War, taking part in the Battle of Lagos and the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. She crossed the Atlantic in 1761, and fought in the West Indies Campaign of the War, featuring in the Siege of Havana the following year. She was broken up at Chatham in 1765.