HMS Magnanime was a 64-gun third-rate

Third-rate

In the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks . Years of experience proved that the third rate ships embodied the best compromise between sailing ability , firepower, and cost...

 ship of the line

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, launched on 14 October 1780 at Deptford Dockyard. She belonged to the designed by Sir John Williams. Commissioned in October 1780 under Captain Charles Wolseley, she sailed in 1781 with the Relief Expedition to Gibraltar, and subsequently to the Indian Ocean, where she participated in several of the series of battles against French forces off India - including those of Providien

Battle of Providien

The Battle of Providien was the second in a series of naval battles fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren near India during the American Revolutionary War...

, Negapatam

Battle of Negapatam (1782)

The Battle of Negapatam was the third in the series of battles fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the coast of India during the American Revolutionary War...

 and Trincomalee

Battle of Trincomalee

The Battle of Trincomalee was the fourth in the series of battles fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the coast of India during the American Revolutionary War...

 in 1782 and Cuddalore

Battle of Cuddalore (1783)

The Battle of Cuddalore was a battle between a British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a slightly smaller French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the coast of India near Cuddalore during the American Revolutionary War, which in 1780 had sparked the Second Mysore War in India...

 in 1783. She returned to the United Kingdom and paid off into ordinary

Reserve fleet

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 in June 1784.

From 1794—95, she was cut down into a 44-gun razee

Razee

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 fifth-rate

Fifth-rate

In Britain's Royal Navy during the classic age of fighting sail, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchal system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.-Rating:...

 frigate

Frigate

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 and recommissioned in November 1794 under Captain Isaac Schomberg

Isaac Schomberg

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; she served as such throughout the French Revolutionary War before paying off into ordinary again in 1802. During the Napoleonic War she servedf in a variety of ancillary capacities - as a floating battery, then as a hospital ship. The Magnanime was eventually broken up in July 1813.