HMS Rippon (1758)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Rippon.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Rippon
Ordered: 8 November 1752
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 20 January 1758
Fate: Broken up, 1808
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 1752 amendments 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,242 long tons (1,261.9 t)
Length: 155 ft (47.2 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 42 ft 5 in (12.9 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 7 in (5.7 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

60 guns:

  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Rippon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 20 January 1758.[1]

Rippon was placed on harbour service in 1801, and was eventually broken up in 1808.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p174.

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.