HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British 74-gun two-decker. Not a named portrait of the ship.

Overview

Goliath is already on the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. She was a British 74 among Nelson’s thirteen third-rates. Captain Foley saw that the French had not run out their inshore guns and led five British ships between the French line and the shore, doubling the van in Aboukir Bay — Egypt.¹

Specifications

Feature	Detail
Guns	74 (Nile note)
Type	British two-decker
This vault	Nile, 1 August 1798

A 74 is the same rate as HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate and HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate, not a First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview.

Service

This note covers 1 August 1798 only. Launch, later commissions, and Foley at Copenhagen stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Foley is now a filled person note for this day only.

Nelson signalled the attack at 3pm and chose dusk in uncharted shoal water. Action opened at 6:30pm. HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship was the British flag. L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship exploded around 10pm with Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral aboard.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit — pp. 281–320
• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Ships_Maritime
• Individual_Ships_Index

Same Battle

• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
• Aboukir Bay — Egypt
• HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship
• L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship
• Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral
• Foley Thomas — British Captain

Cross-Domain

• Line of Battle — Naval Tactic
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. 74 among thirteen third-rates; Foley; inshore guns not run out; five ships inside; doubled the van: Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. Knight card: pp. 281–320, Foley’s inside passage. ↩

2. 3pm signal, dusk, shoal, 6:30pm, L’Orient ~10pm: same battle note. Do not add a launch year or a later commission until a page is licensed. ↩