Ramillies-class ship of the line
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 Loss of HMS Ramillies by Robert Dodd
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ramillies class |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Canada class |
| Succeeded by | Albion class |
| In service | 4 September 1762 – 1817 |
| Completed | 9 |
| Lost | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ship of the line |
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| Propulsion | Sails |
| Complement | 550 |
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| Notes | Ships in class include: Ramillies, Monarch, Magnificent, Marlborough, Terrible, Russell, Invincible, Robust, Prince of Wales |
The Ramillies-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.
Design
[edit]The draught for the Ramillies class was very similar to that of the Bellona class and subsequent Arrogant class, with the only real differences to be found in the shape of the underwater hull. There were two distinct sub-groups; four ships were built in the Royal Dockyards to the original design, approved on 25 April 1760 – although the name-ship Ramillies had originally been ordered as a Bellona-class unit. Slade subsequently amended his design for the ships which were to be built by commercial contractors – this modified design, with slightly amended dimensions, being approved on 13 January 1761.
Ships
[edit]First group
[edit]Dockyard-built ships:
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 1 December 1759
- Laid down: 25 August 1760
- Launched: 25 April 1763
- Completed: November 1763
- Fate: Abandoned and burned off Newfoundland, 21 September 1782.
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 22 November 1760
- Laid down: 2 June 1761
- Launched: 20 July 1765
- Completed: 24 September 1765
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham, March 1813
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 16 December 1761
- Laid down: 15 April 1762
- Launched: 20 September 1767
- Completed: September 1778
- Fate: Wrecked off Brest, 25 March 1804.
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 4 December 1762
- Laid down: 3 June 1763
- Launched: 26 August 1767
- Completed: 1 December 1767
- Fate: Wrecked off Belle Île, 4 November 1800
Second (modified) group
[edit]Contract-built ships:
- Builder: John Barnard, Harwich
- Ordered: 1 January 1761
- Laid down: February 1761
- Launched: 4 September 1762
- Completed: 18 December 1762
- Fate: Burned following the Battle of the Chesapeake, 11 September 1781
- Builder: Thomas West, Deptford
- Ordered: 1 January 1761
- Laid down: June 1761
- Launched: 10 November 1764
- Completed: 6 January 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard
- Fate: Sold out of the service in the East Indies, 1811
- Builder: John and William Wells, Deptford
- Ordered: 12 October 1761
- Laid down: December 1761
- Launched: 9 March 1765
- Completed: February 1777 at Chatham Dockyard.
- Fate: Wrecked off Yarmouth, 16 March 1801
- Builder: John Barnard, Harwich
- Ordered: 16 December 1761
- Laid down: February 1762
- Launched: 25 October 1764
- Completed: 10 December 1764
- Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth, January 1817
- Builder: Henry Bird and Roger Fisher, Milford Haven
- Ordered: 16 December 1762
- Laid down: March 1762
- Launched: 4 June 1765
- Completed: 22 December 1770 at Plymouth Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Plymouth, August 1783
References
[edit]- 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.