English ship Mary Rose (1623)

Mary Rose was a 24-gun fourth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1620s.[Note 1] Commissioned in 1624, she played a minor role as a Parliamentarian ship in the English Civil War. The ship was wrecked in a storm off the Flanders coast in 1650.

History
United Kingdom
Name: Mary Rose
Ordered: 3 February 1623
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: February 1817
Launched: 1623
Commissioned: August 1624
Fate: Wrecked, March 1650
General characteristics
Type: Fourth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 384 bm
Length: 83 ft (25.3 m) (at the keel)
Beam: 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft (4 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 120
Armament:

Notes

  1. The "HMS" prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively

Citations

    Bibliography

    • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
    • Winfield, Rif (2009). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78346-924-6.
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