HMS Coventry (1695)

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Name: HMS Coventry
Ordered: 1693
Builder: Harding, Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 1695
Captured: 1704
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 670 long tons (680.8 t)
Length: 106 ft (32.3 m) (keel)
Beam: 34 ft 5 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 50 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Coventry was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1695.[1]

Coventry was captured in 1704.[1]

[edit] Notes

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

[edit] 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.