HMS Cambridge (1695)

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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Cambridge
Builder: Harding, Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 21 December 1695
Fate: Broken up, 1749
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,194 long tons (1,213.2 t)
Length: 156 ft (47.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 41 ft 11.5 in (12.8 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 80 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1715 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 1706 Establishment 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,286 long tons (1,306.6 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:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
  • Middle gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 24 × 6 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs

HMS Cambridge was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 21 December 1695.[1]

She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and relaunched on 17 September 1715. During this rebuild, her armament of 80 guns was redistributed over an additional gundeck, to make her a three-decker instead of the two-decker she was originally built as. She continued to be classified as a third rate, however.[2]

Cambridge was broken up in 1749.[2]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 163.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 167.

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.