HMS Humber (1693)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Humber
Builder:	Frame, Hull
Launched:	30 March 1693
Renamed:	HMS Princess Amelia, 1726
Fate:	Broken up, 1752
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,223 long tons (1,242.6 t)
Length:	156 ft 3 in (47.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	42 ft 1.5 in (12.8 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 4 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	80 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1708 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	1706 Establishment 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,294 long tons (1,314.8 t)
Length:	156 ft (47.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	43 ft 6 in (13.3 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 8 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	80 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs Middle gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs Upper gundeck: 24 × 6 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs
General characteristics after 1726 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	1719 Establishment 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,352 long tons (1,373.7 t)
Length:	158 ft (48.2 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 6 in (13.6 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 2 in (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	80 guns of various weights of shot

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Humber and HMS Princess Amelia.

HMS Humber was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 30 March 1693.^[1]

She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford in 1708. Her guns, previously being mounted on two gundecks, where now mounted on three, though she remained classified as a third rate.^[2] On 30 October 1723 Humber was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth. She was renamed HMS Princess Amelia, and relaunched on 4 October 1726.^[3]