HMS Warrior (1781)
HMS "Warrior" was a 74-gun Alfred-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1781 at Portsmouth. Service history. A year after her launch she took part in the Battle of the Saintes captained by Sir James Wallace. She fought in the van of Admiral Sir George Rodney's fleet, taking twenty-six total casualties. Through this action "Warrior" lost her main topmast two days later. In July she transported Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Pigot to America. "Warrior" was laid up at Portsmouth between 1784 and 1795. In 1801 , she was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen. "Warrior" then joined the Channel fleet off Brest to assist in deterring French invasion. In 1805, she was part of Admiral Robert Calder's fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre under Samuel Hood Linzee. Later in December of that year she was involved in towing to Spithead. By 1806 she was assisting HMS Renown and HMS Minerva in attacking coastal trade around Ferrol and Vigo. In December "Warrior" became flagship in the Channel. From 1809 to 1811 "Warrior" was based in the Mediterranean . In October 1809 she assisted in capturing the islands of Zante and Cephalonia to stop the French from using them as outposts, with her guns covering the advance of the invasion force. While under the command of Captain the Viscount Torrington in 1813, "Warrior" was the ship chosen to convey Prince Frederick of the Netherlands to his homeland for the first time.<ref name="Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph"></ref> On 10 August 1815, "Warrior" collided with the British merchant ship "George" in the Atlantic Ocean. "George" foundered with the loss of four lives. "Warrior" rescued her survivors. In the same year "Warrior" served  as the flagship of John Erskine Douglas on the Jamaica Station Fate. "Warrior" was laid up in September 1815 at Chatham. She became a receiving ship in August 1819 and was a temporary quarantine ship in 1831. She was fitted as a prison ship after 1840, and was eventually broken up in December 1857 at Woolwich.