| abstract | - HMS Invincible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1765 at Deptford. Invincible was built during a period of peace to replace ships worn out in the recently concluded Seven Years' War. The ship went on to serve in the American War of Independence, fighting at the battles of Cape St Vincent in 1780, and under the command of Captain Charles Saxton, the Battles of the Chesapeake in 1781 and St Kitts in 1782.[citation needed] She survived the cull of the Navy during the next period of peace, and was present at the Glorious First of June in 1794, where she was badly damaged and lost fourteen men, and the Invasion of Trinidad (1797), which resulted in the transfer of Trinidad from the Spanish.[citation needed]
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