HMS Sedgemoor (1687)

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Career (England) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Sedgemoor
Builder: Lee, Chatham Dockyard
Launched: 1687
Fate: Wrecked, 1689
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 677 long tons (687.9 t)
Length: 123 ft (37.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 34 ft 6 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 7 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 50 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Sedgemoor was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1687.[1]

Sedgemoor was wrecked in 1689.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p162.

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.