HMS Essex (1679)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Essex
Builder:	Johnson, Blackwall
Launched:	1679
Fate:	Wrecked, 1759
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,072 long tons (1,089.2 t)
Length:	150 ft 2 in (45.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	40 ft (12.2 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 9.5 in (5.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1700 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,090 long tons (1,107.5 t)
Length:	150 ft 4 in (45.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	40 ft 7.5 in (12.4 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1713 rebuild
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
General characteristics after 1740 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,225 long tons (1,244.7 t)
Length:	151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Essex.

HMS Essex was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall in 1679.^[1]

She was rebuilt at Rotherhithe in 1700, retaining her 70-gun armament. She underwent a second rebuild in 1713,^[2] and on 20 May 1736 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich as a 70-gun third rate to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 21 February 1740.^[3]

Essex was wrecked in 1759.^[3]