# HMS Temple

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**HMS *Temple*** was a 68-gun [third rate](/source/Third_rate) [ship of the line](/source/Ship_of_the_line) of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy), launched on 3 November 1758 at [Blaydes Yard](/source/Blaydes_Yard) in [Hull](/source/Kingston_upon_Hull).[1]

Commissioned in January 1759 under the command of [Washington Shirley](/source/Washington_Shirley,_5th_Earl_Ferrers), she saw service at the [Battle of Quiberon Bay](/source/Battle_of_Quiberon_Bay) in November.[2]

The following year, in March 1760, she sailed for the West Indies under Captain Lucius O'Brien. With the aid of the cutter [*Griffin*](/source/HMS_Griffin_(1778)), in September of that year she recaptured the sloop [*Virgin*](/source/HMS_Virgin_(1760)) off Grenada.[2]

*Temple* operated as part of the fleet at the [capture of Havana](/source/Battle_of_Havana_(1762)) in 1762, under the command of Julian Legge. From June to September she was commanded by [Chaloner Ogle](/source/Chaloner_Ogle) and thereafter by [Thomas Collingwood](/source/Thomas_Collingwood).

On 18 December of that year, en route home to England, she developed severe leaks off [Cape Clear Island](/source/Cape_Clear_Island) and foundered at sea and was lost.[2]

## Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 177.

1. ["NMM, vessel ID 377150"](http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf). *Warship Histories, vol x*. [National Maritime Museum](/source/National_Maritime_Museum). Archived from [the original](http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2012.

## References

- Lavery, Brian (1983) *The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850.* Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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