Invincible, 1765
Type: 3rd rate ; Armament 74
Launched : 1765 ; Disposal date or year : 16 Mar 1801
Disposal Details : Wrecked on Hasborough, or Ridge Sand, not long after leaving N. Yarmout, about 14 miles from Winterton, crew, except about 126, perished. Tho. Totty (R.-Adm.), Capt. John Rennie, (Vol iii, Appendix No 16)
BM: 1631 tons
Complement: 594
Notes:

1780 Rodney's victory off Cape St Vincent over Spanish

1782 St Kitts

27 Oct 1793, joined the Channel Fleet and departed in search of the French fleet and squadrons. 18 Nov brief skirmish with a French squadron : by mid-December the fleet had returned to Spithead.

2 May - 1 Jun 1794 Departure of the Channel Fleet from St. Helen's, and the lead up to actions and manoeuvres with the French fleet. 29 May - 1 Jun., what was to be known as the Battle of the Glorious 1st June commences, resulting in the capture of six sail of the line and one sunk. Review of the part performed by each British ship engaged. 13 Jun, the fleet arrived back in home ports.

7-21 Sep 1794 the Channel Fleet departed from Torbay to cruise off the coast of France, but as a result of bad weather returned to Torbay.

14 Feb 1795 the Channel fleet departed from Torbay for a brief cruise and to see various convoys safe out of the Channel.

1 Apr 1796 captured the French privateer Alexandre en route to the West Indies.

Feb 1797 capture of the Island of Trinidad, along with the San-Damaso, 74, and induced the destruction of 3 Spanish ships of the line and a frigate.

31 Jul -22 Aug 1799 departed as a part of an expedition to the coast of Surinam, resulting in the taking of that Dutch colony, along with the capture of the French corvette Hussar, and the Dutch corvette, Camphaan, which were added to the British navy ; the latter by her own name, and the former by the name of the colony.

20 Aug 1800 Plymouth, passed up the Invincible, 74, from Martinique, with 40 sail under convoy. 11 sail were convoyed up the Bristol Channel by the Scourge, 18 guns.

15 Mar 1801 this evening arrived at N. Yarmouth.

16 Mar 1801 departed N. Yarmouth, Adm Totty, to join the Fleet.

16 Mar 1801 the fact that the Invincible had gone ashore on a sandbank off the Norfolk coast, near Winterton, was being reported at Yarmouth.

31 Mar 1801 Sheerness : a court martial was held on board the Ruby on the surviving officers and men of the Invincible for her loss. After all the evidences were examined, and after a very short deliberation, Rear-admiral Totty, the surviving Officers and crew were acquitted. By every thing that appeared, the steady cool subordination that prevailed, from her first striking until the fatal moment that she went down, bespoke her high state of discipline, and makes us the more deplore the loss of an Officer like Captain Rennie, who could, out of a raw ship's company, produce such order and regularity to the last. The feeling that Admiral Totty and the survivors shewed during the whole proceedings was extremely creditable to themselves. When the Admiral spoke of his Captain, it was with such feeling and emotion that he could with difficulty support himself.

4 Apr 1801 a Court Martial was held on board the Ruby, to try Mr. Thomas Scott, Boatswain of the Prince Edward Receiving Ship at Chatham, for striking the Centinel when on duty, and for mutinous behaviour to Lieutenant Graves, Commanding Officer of the Lion (which ship's crew were then on board the Prince Edward) ; when the charges being proved in part, the Court rendered him incapable of ever again serving as an officer in his Majesty's Navy, and to serve before the mast, in such of his Majesty's ships at the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty shall direct.