HMS Dartmouth (1693)

HMS Dartmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Rotherhithe on 24 July 1693.[1]

History
England
Name: HMS Dartmouth
Builder: Shish, Rotherhithe
Launched: 24 July 1693
Captured: 1695, by France
France
Acquired: 1695
Captured: 1702, by England
History
England
Name: HMS Vigo
Acquired: 1702
Fate: Wrecked, 1703
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 603
Length: 122 ft (37.2 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 33 ft 8 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 7 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament: 50 guns of various weights of shot

She was captured by the French in 1695. Upon her re-capture in 1702 she was renamed HMS Vigo, as a new ship of the navy had already been commissioned as HMS Dartmouth. Her service as HMS Vigo was short however,[1] as she was wrecked in on the Dutch coast on 25 November 1703.[2]

Notes

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 164.
  2. Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret: David & Charles. p. 57. ISBN 0 7153 7202 5.

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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