HMS Basilisk (1695)

History
UK
Name: HMS Basilisk
Ordered: 9 January 1695
Builder: William Redding, Wapping
Launched: 4 May 1695
Commissioned: 1695
Out of service: 21 January 1729
Fate: Broken up, Deptford Dockyard, 1729
General characteristics
Class & type: 6-gun Serpent-class bomb vessel
Tons burthen: 163 6394 (bm)
Length:
  • 72 ft 2 in (22.0 m) (overall)
  • 57 ft 4 in (17.5 m) (keel)
Beam: 23 ft 2 in (7.1 m)
Depth of hold: 10 ft 2 in (3.1 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: Ketch-rigged
Complement: 30
Armament:
  • 4 × 2pdrs
  • 2 × 1212 in. mortars

HMS Basilisk was a Serpent-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports. Initially commissioned as part of Admiral John Berkeley's fleet during the Nine Years' War, she also saw service as an exploratory vessel along the St Lawrence River, and later as part of the victorious British forces at the Battle of Cape Passaro.[1]

At 163 tonnes burthen she was the largest vessel in her class and also the last survivor of it; all nine of her sister ships had been lost or broken up by the time she was decommissioned and broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1729.[2]

References

  1. Winfield 2007, p. 338
  2. McLaughlan 2014, p. 117

Bibliography


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