Built as a 3rd Rate ship-of-the-line by Deptford Drydock at Deptford for the Royal Navy.
21 February 1778 ordered.
10 April 1779 keel laid down.
19 October 1781 launched under the name HMS GOLIATH.
Tonnage 1.604 tons (BM), dim. 168 x 46.9 x 19.9ft.
Armament: Lower deck 28 – 32pdr., upper deck 28 – 18pdr., quarter deck 14 – 9 pdr., forecastle 4 – 9pdr.
Crew 550.
31 October 1781 completed, then shifted to Woolwich for fitting out and coppering, which was completed on 02 January 1782.
Building cost £40.575.
October 1781 commissioned.
July 1783 used as guard ship at Sheerness.
1790 Under command of Capt. Andrew Snape.
February 1796 under command of Sir Charles Knowles.
14 February 1797 a unit of Admiral Jervis fleet in the Battle of St Vincent, not any men killed only 8 men wounded in this battle.
March 1797 under command of Capt. T. Foley.
01 August 1798 took part in the Battle of the Nile, got 21 killed and 41 wounded during the battle.
August 1798 with Hood’s squadron at Alexandria, her boots took the ketch La TORRIDE on 25 August.
1799 Used in the blockade of Malta.
December 1799 decommissioned.
September 1800 till August 1801 fitted out at Portsmouth.
June 1801 re-commissioned.
October 1801 she sailed for Jamaica under command of Capt. William Essington, arrived at Jamaica on 26 November.
July 1802 under command of Capt. Charles Brisbane.
Then she sailed to the West Indies, with a squadron under command of Commodore H.W. Baytun on board the HMS CUMBERLAND.
27 June 1803 her boats captured a small French schooner underway from Santiago de Cuba to Port-au-Prince, with a cargo of sugar, and some 2.476 dollars in cash. The schooner was armed with three guns and some swivels.
28 July 1803 off San Domingo she gave chase to two ships which had been sighted by the squadron and was fortunate enough to carry up the breeze to the sternmost, one of the ships was becalmed and after changing a few shots she hauled down her colours, she was the French corvette MIGNONNE (10 guns), with a crew of 80 men, commanded by a Captaine de Fregate J.P. Bargeaud underway from Les Cayes to France.
She then returned to the UK together with the HMS CALYPSO with a homeward bound convoy, the convoy was dispersed during a gale off the Western Islands on 30 July 1803. The CALYPSO was run down during this gale with the loss of all hands (120 men), by one of the merchantmen of the convoy.
After delivering the convoy at the Downs, the GOLIATH sailed to Portsmouth where she arrived 26 August.
07 November 1803 sailed with a convoy for the Mediterranean.
09 December 1803 her boats attacked a convoy off Sables d’Olonne, France.
January 1804 she was ordered together with the HIBERNA, THUNDERER, PRINCESS ROYAL, PRINCE OF ORANGE and RAISONABLE to protect the coast of Ireland.
She took a Dutch West Indiaman loaded with coffee, and took her prize to Plymouth where she arrived on 30 January 1804.
23 March 1804 sailed from Cawsand Bay to join the fleet off Ferrol. 18 July she returned in the UK for a refit.
1805 Under command of Capt. Robert Barton in the Channel Fleet.
15 August 1805 together with HMS CAMILLE the French brig corvette FAUNE (16 guns) was captured in the English Channel.
16 August 1805 captured the French La TORCHE (18 guns)
December 1805 under command of Capt. Matthew Scott.
1806 Paid off.
January till March 1807 fitted out at Plymouth.
February 1807 recommissioned under command of Capt. Peter Paget.
August 1807 used in the Copenhagen expedition, thereafter used in the Baltic.
November 1808 laid up at Chatham, then at Portsmouth.
1812 Cut down to a 4th Rate (58 gun frigate fitted out at Chatham from March until July 1813.
1813 Recommissioned, under command of Capt. Frederick Maitland for the Halifax and West Indies stations.
1814 She was is in a bad condition and was paid off at Chatham in October 1814.
June 1815 broken up at Chatham.
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Source: http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/G.HTM British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Winfield.