HMS Newark (1695)

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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Newark
Builder: Frame, Hull
Launched: 3 June 1695
Fate: Broken up, 1787
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1216 bm
Length: 157 ft 1.5 in (47.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 41 ft 10.5 in (12.8 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 80 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1717 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 1706 Establishment 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1283 bm
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
General characteristics after 1747 rebuild[3]
Class and type: 1741 proposals 80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1521 bm
Length: 161 ft (49.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 46 ft (14.0 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 4 in (5.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

80 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
  • Middle gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 24 × 9 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs

HMS Newark was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 3 June 1695.[1]

She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and relaunched on 29 July 1717. During this rebuild an extra gundeck was added to make her a three-decker, instead of the two-decker as which she had been originally built. She continued to be classified as a third rate, however.[2] On 24 April 1741 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Chatham according to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 27 August 1747.[3]

Newark continued to serve until 1787, when she was broken up.[3]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p163.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p167.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p172.

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.