HMS Weymouth (1693)
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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Weymouth
Ordered: 1693
Builder: Stigant, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched: 1693
Fate: Broken up, 1732
General characteristics as built1
Class and type: 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 673 long tons (683.8 t)
Length: 132 ft 4 in (40.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 34 ft 3 in (10.4 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 50 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1719 rebuild2
Class and type: 1706 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 715 long tons (726.5 t)
Length: 130 ft (39.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 35 ft (10.7 m)
Depth of hold: 14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

50 guns:

  • Gundeck: 22 × 18 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 22 × 9 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1693.1

She was rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, relaunching on 26 February 1719. Weymouth continued to serve until 1732, when she was broken up.2

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p164.
  2. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p168.

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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