HMS Repulse (1596)

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Career (England) English Flag
Name: Repulse
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Launched: c.1 March 1596
Fate: Broken up, 1649
General characteristics as built
Class and type: 40-48 gun ship
Tons burthen: 622 tons (632 tonnes)
Length: 105 ft (32 m) (keel)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 38 principal guns, plus 4 smaller anti-personnel guns
General characteristics after 1610 rebuild[1]
Class and type: 40-gun Great ship
Tons burthen: 657 tons (667.5 tonnes)
Length: 108 ft (33 m) (keel)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 34 principal guns, plus 6 smaller anti-personnel guns

Repulse,[Note 1] sometimes written as Due Repulse, was a 40/48-gun ship of the English Navy Royal, launched in 1596.

Repulse was rebuilt in 1610 as a Great ship of 34 principal guns, plus 6 smaller anti-personnel guns.[1] She was broken up in 1649.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.

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.


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