HMS Royal George - a 100-gun battleship of the first rank . The fifth ship of the Royal Navy , named after the kings of Georgov of the Hanoverian dynasty .
| Royal George | |
|---|---|
| HMS Royal George | |
 Royal George | |
| Service | |
 Great Britain | |
| Ship class and type | |
| Type of sailing equipment | three-mast ship |
| Organization |  Royal Navy |
| Manufacturer | |
| Author ship drawing | Edward Hunt |
| Construction started | june 1784 |
| Launched | September 16, 1788 |
| Removed from the fleet | disassembled 1822 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 2,286 tons ( approx. ) [1] |
| Gondek length | 190 feet (58 m ) |
| Mid- width width | 52 ft 5.5 dm 15.99 m |
| Depth of intrum | 22 ft 4 dm (6.8 m) |
| Engines | Sail |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 100 |
| Guns on the gandek | 30 × 42 pound guns |
| Guns in the middeldek | 28 × 24-fn |
| Operdeck guns | 30 × 12-fn |
| Guns on shkantsah | 10 × 12-fn |
| Tank guns | 2 × 12-fn |
Construction
According to this drawing, only two ships were built, the second - HMS Queen Charlotte (1790) . The ship was ordered on March 25, 1782 from the royal shipyards of Chatham Shipyard in Chatham under the name HMS Umpire , but on September 11, 1783, before the laying of the ship was changed to HMS Royal George [2] . Launched in 1788 . Shipbuilder Nicholas Phillips was engaged in the construction of the vessel, and after July 1790, John Nelson, who completed the construction of the ship [3] [4] . When built, it had 42-fn guns on the bottom deck , subsequently replaced with 32-fn [5] .
Service
Participated in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars .
In 1794, under the flag of Vice-Admiral Alexander Hud, the ship participated in a naval battle between Great Britain and the French Republic in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, which went down in history as Glorious First of June [1] .
Already in the rank of admiral, Hood made him his flagship in the battle of Groo’s island in 1795 [1]
In 1807, he was the flagship of Admiral Sir John Duckworth during an expedition to Alexandria [6] .
In Plymouth, the ship was decommissioned from active duty in July 1814, scrapped, and dismantled in February 1822 [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Lavery, Brian. The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850 . Conway Maritime Press, 2003. ISBN 0-85177-252-8
- ↑ Lyon David & Winfield Rif p. 35
- ↑ Winfield Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 - Design, Construction and Fates //. - Minnesota: Seaforth Publishing, 2007. - p. 8. - ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .
- ↑ 1 2 Winfield Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 - Design, Construction and Fates //. - Minnesota: Seaforth Publishing, 2005. - P. 3. - ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4 .
- ↑ Navies and the American Revolution, 1775-1783. Robert Gardiner, ed. Chatham Publishing, 1997, p.92-95. ISBN 1-55750-623-X
- ↑ George Thom Archived July 18, 2008. . Paget & Taylor Family Tree.