HMS Asia (1764) - 64-gun battleship of the 3rd rank of the Royal Navy .
| Hms asia | |
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| Hms asia | |
 HMS Asia in Halifax, 1797 | |
| Service | |
 Great Britain | |
| Class and type of vessel | battleship 3 ranks |
| Type of sailing weapon | three mast ship |
| Organization |  Royal fleet |
| Manufacturer | royal shipyard, Portsmouth |
| The author of the ship drawing | Thomas Slade |
| Construction started | April 18, 1758 |
| Launched | March 3, 1764 [1] |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | disassembled, 1804 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1364 46/94 tons ( approx. ) [2] |
| Gondek length | 158 feet (48.15 m ) |
| Midship Width | 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m) |
| Draft | 10'2 "/ 16'6" (3.1 / 5.03 m) [2] |
| Depth of intrum | 18 ft. 10 in. (5.74 m.) [1] |
| Engines | Sail |
| Crew | 470 (500 since 1761; 491 [3] ) [2] |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 64 |
| Gundeck Guns | 26 × 24 pound guns |
| Guns on the operdek | 26 × 18-fn guns |
| Guns on the Trench | 10 × 9-fn guns |
| Guns on the tank | 2 × 9-fn guns, plus 2 × 24-fn carronades [3] (plus 6 × 18-fn carronades in Utah [3] ) |
Build
Ordered on March 20, 1758 . The name was assigned on October 28, 1760 . Launched on March 3, 1764 at the Royal Shipyard in Portsmouth , immediately put into sediment. The second ship of His Majesty, named after the Asian continent . The only ship built according to this drawing (the project was approved on March 20, 1758) [1] .
Sir Thomas Slade designed Asia as the first true 64-gun ship (all the previous ones were rebuilds from the old 60-guns ). In this regard, he was experimental, and in many ways differed from the previous ones. As usual for new projects, it had slightly increased dimensions (approximately 200 tons more displacement) and additional cannon ports. Despite this, he carried only 24-pound guns on the gon deck, unlike the 32-pound guns of the predecessors of the 1740s [2] .
Service
American Revolutionary War
Entered service in March 1771 , Captain Richard King ( eng. Richard King ), firewall in Portsmouth.
1773 - June 22 was present at the review of the fleet in Spithead .
1774 - Captain George Vandeput.
1775 - June 10 left for North America .
1776 - July, anchored at Staten Island for water abstraction; 8 miles from New York ; [4] August, was attacked by an American firearm stuffed with explosives; Siles Talbot, future captain of the USS Constitution , commanded the firewall.
1777 - April-August, minor repairs and equipment in Portsmouth.
1778 - April 24 left for the East Indies ; August, was at Pondicherry .
1781 - April, returned to England, withdrawn to the reserve and calculated.
1782 - January-June, repair and plating with copper in Chatham ; commissioned in March, Captain Richard Bligh, Channel Fleet ; September 11, with the fleet of Admiral Howe participated in lifting the siege from Gibraltar ; October 20 was at Cape Spartel .
1783 - March, withdrawn to the reserve and calculated.
1786 - May, major repairs at Chatham to June 1787 .
French Revolutionary Wars
1790 - June, commissioned during the so-called "Spanish armament", captain Andrew Mitchell ( eng. Andrew Mitchell ), then again in reserve; August, equipment in Chatham.
1793 - April-August, equipment in Chatham; commissioned, captain John Brown; December 26 left for the Caribbean .
1794 - West Indies, with the John Jervis Fleet; [2] March 20 participated in the attack on Fort Royal , Martinique ; according to the plan, Asia and HMS Zebra were supposed to enter Kilevania Bay ( French Carenage ) to shell the fort , but Asia did not take a position, because the former port captain , taken on board as a pilot , refused to lead the ship to the bay ; [4] July, returned to England; August Captain John Mack Dougall, Downs Squadron.
1795 - January, squadron of the North Sea ; since June, the flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Pringle ( English Thomas Pringle ).
1796 - May, Captain Robert Murray; August 16 left for Halifax .
1798 - October, Halifax, the flagship of George Vandeput, already Vice Admiral .
1800 - November, returned to England; [2] according to other sources, arrived in Portsmouth on October 30 after a five-week crossing accompanied by Mary Ann transports (24th regiment on board) and Duchess of Rutland (26th regiment); the rest of the convoy transports: Diamond (cavalry of the Duke of Kent ), Leighton , Laurel and Duke of Kent , went further to Downs; [4] at the end of the year put into reserve; captain Murray surrendered command [2] .
1801 - January 15, along with other ships in the port passed the inspection of the Naval Committee ; all received orders to be immediately equipped for service at sea; [4] January-March, equipment in Chatham; commissioned in February, captain John Dawson; entered the Baltic squadron of Vice Admiral Charles Paul [2] .
1802 - Captain Mack Innes ( English M'Innes ); October 27 left Portsmouth by appointment to the East Indies.
1803 - March, withdrawn to the reserve and calculated [4] .
Napoleonic Wars
Dismantled at Chatham in August 1804 . [one]
Links
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 B. Lavery. The Ship of the Line - Volume 1. - P. 177.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Winfield ... p. 97.
- ↑ 1 2 3 since 1794
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Ships of the Old Navy: ASIA (64)
Literature
- Lavery, B. The Ship of the Line. The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. - Conway Maritime Press, 2003. - Vol. I. - ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .
- Winfield, Rif. British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth, Chatam-St.Paul, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6