Ramillies-class ship of the line

Loss of HMS Ramillies by Robert Dodd
Class overview
Name:	Ramillies
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Canada class
Succeeded by:	Albion class
In service:	4 September 1762 – 1817
Completed:	9
Lost:	5
General characteristics
Type:	Ship of the line
Length:	168 ft 6 in (51.4 m) (gundeck) 138 ft 3⅜ in (42.1 m) (keel) (first group) 138 ft 1 in (42.1 m) (keel) (second group)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.2 m) (first group) 46 ft 11 in (14.3 m) (second group)
Propulsion:	Sails
Complement:	550 officers and men
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
Notes:	Ships in class include: Ramillies, Monarch, Magnificent, Marlborough, Terrible, Russell, Invincible, Robust, Prince of Wales

The Ramillies-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.

Design

The draught for the Ramillies-class was very similar to that of the Bellona-class and subsequent Arrogant-class, with the only real differences to be found in the shape of the underwater hull. There were two distinct sub-groups; four ships were built in the Royal Dockyards to the original design, approved on 25 April 1760 – although the name-ship Ramillies had originally been ordered as a Bellona-class unit. Slade subsequently amended his design for the ships which were to be built by commercial contractors – this modified design, with slightly amended dimensions, being approved on 13 January 1761.

Ships

First group

Dockyard-built ships:

Second (modified) group

Contract-built ships:

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