HMS Suffolk (1680)

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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Suffolk
Builder: Johnson, Blackwall Yard
Launched: 1680
Fate: Broken up, 1765
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,066 long tons (1,083.1 t)
Length: 150 ft 10 in (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft 6 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft 9.5 in (5.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1699 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,078 long tons (1,095.3 t)
Length: 151 ft 4 in (46.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft 4.5 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft 7.5 in (5.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1718 rebuild[3]
Class and type: 1706 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,129 long tons (1,147.1 t)
Length: 150 ft (45.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 41 ft (12.5 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 4 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

70 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 6 pdrs
General characteristics after 1739 rebuild[4]
Class and type: 1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,224 long tons (1,243.6 t)
Length: 151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

70 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 6 pdrs

HMS Suffolk was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Henry Johnson at Blackwall Yard and launched in May 1680.[1]

She was rebuilt at Blackwall in 1699,[2] and for a second time at Chatham Dockyard, from where she was relaunched on 13 November 1718 as a 70-gun third rate to the 1706 Establishment.[3] On 3 December 1735 she was ordered to be taken to pieces for her final rebuild, which was carried out at Woolwich. She was reconstructed as a 70-gun third rate according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and relaunched on 5 March 1739.[4] Suffolk was commanded by Christopher Billopp in the Battle of Barfleur. Suffolk was broken up in 1765.[4]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p162.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p168.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p170.

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.