Queen Charlotte (H.M.S.) (I)

This vessel was the flagship of Admiral Lord Howe at the Battle of the glorious First of June 1794 while under command of flag captain Sir Roger Curtis RN and Sir Andrew Snape Douglas RN. While the flagship of Admiral Lord Keith RN this vesse accidentally burned on 17/03/1800 in the Mediterranean with great loss of life. Flagship of Adm. Richard Earl Howe at the Glorious First of June, 1794, when this vesselengaged the French flagship Montagne of Villaret-Joyeuse and the Jacobin. Flagship of Adm. Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport, when he engaged another fleet under Villaret-Joyeuse at the Battle of Groix, 23 Jun 1795. Involved in the Nore mutiny of 1797, when this vessel was flagship of Viscount Keith, second in command of the Channel Fleet. Still under Keith three years later in the Mediterranean, this vessel caught fire and sank off Livorno, 17 Mar 1800; 690 lost.