HMS Ramillies (1763)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Ramillies.
Loss of HMS Ramillies by Robert Dodd
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Ramillies
Ordered: 1 December 1759
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Launched: 15 April 1763
Fate: Burned, 1782
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: Ramillies-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1619 (bm)
Length: 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1763 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]

In 1782 she was part of a fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves off Newfoundland. Ramillies was badly damaged in a violent storm, and was finally abandoned and burned on 21 September 1782.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p177.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003). 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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