HMS Russell (1692)
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Name: | HMS Russell |
Builder: | Stigant, Portsmouth Dockyard |
Launched: | 3 June 1692 |
Fate: | Sunk as breakwater, 1762 |
General characteristics as built[1] | |
Class and type: | 80-gun third rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1,177 long tons (1,195.9 t) |
Length: | 155 ft 6 in (47.4 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 41 ft 6 in (12.6 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 1709 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:
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General characteristics after 1735 rebuild[3] | |
Class and type: | 1719 Establishment 80-gun third rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1,350 long tons (1,371.7 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 of the same name, see HMS Russell.
HMS Russell was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 3 June 1692.[1]
She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Rotherhithe, and was relaunched on 16 March 1709. Instead of mounting her 80 guns on two decks, as she had done as originally built, she now mounted them on three decks, but remained classified as a third rate.[2] On 4 February 1729 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, from where she was relaunched on 8 September 1735.[3]
Russell was sunk as a breakwater in 1762.[3]
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- 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.