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HMS Essex (1760)
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Essex
Ordered: 31 January 1759
Builder: Wells and Stanton, Rotherhithe
Launched: 28 August 1760
Fate: Sold out of the service, 1799
Notes: Harbour service from 1777
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: Essex-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1380 Long ton (1402.1 tonnes)
Length: 158 ft (48 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 44 ft 2 in (13.46 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 10 in (5.74 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

64 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs

HMS Essex was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1760 at Rotherhithe.[1]

She was on harbour service from 1777, and was sold out of the service in 1799.[1]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p178.

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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