title: Temple-class ship of the line
text: # Temple-class ship of the line
  
  The Temple class ships were two 68-gun third rates designed for the Royal Navy to the lines of the Vanguard of 1748, i.e. to the outdated 1745 Establishment. The Temple class ships were the last 68-gun ships to be built - both by commercial contract - to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment.
  
  ## Ships
  
  * HMS Temple
  
      Builder: Hugh Blaydes, Hull
      Ordered: 9 September 1756
      Laid down: 17 November 1755
      Launched: 3 November 1758
      Completed: 11 March 1759
      Fate: Foundered off Cape Clear, 18 December 1762
  * HMS Conqueror
  
      Builder: John Barnard & John Turner, Harwich
      Ordered: 11 January 1757
      Laid down: 9 February 1757
      Launched: 24 May 1758
      Completed: 3 February 1759 at Harwich, then 15 March 1759 at Portsmouth
      Fate:Wrecked in Plymouth Sound, 26 October 1760
  