HMS Portland (1770) - 50-gun ship of the 4th rank of the Royal Navy . The fourth ship named after Portland . The lead ship of the same type.
| Hms portland | |
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| Hms portland | |
 HMS Portland Drawings Signed by Williams (1766) | |
| Service | |
 United Kingdom | |
| Class and type of vessel | Portland Grade 4 Ship |
| Type of sailing weapon | Three mast ship |
| Organization |  Royal fleet |
| Manufacturer | royal shipyard, shirness |
| The author of the ship drawing | John williams |
| Ship master | William Gray |
| Construction started | January 1767 |
| Launched | April 11, 1770 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | sold, May 19, 1817 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,044 77/94 tons ( approx. ) [1] |
| Gondek length | 146 ft (44.8 m ) |
| Midship Width | 40 ft 6 in (12.3 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 6 in / 15 ft 7 in (3.2 / 4.75 m) |
| Depth of intrum | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) |
| Engines | Sail |
| Crew | 350 |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | fifty |
| Gundeck Guns | 22 × 24 pound guns |
| Guns on the operdek | 22 × 12-fn guns |
| Guns on the Trench | 4 × 6-fn guns (plus 2 × 24 fn carronades [2] ) |
| Guns on the tank | 2 × 6-fn guns (plus 2 × 12 fn carronades [2] ) plus 6 × 12 fn carronade in utah [2] |
Content
- 1 Construction
- 2 Service
- 2.1 American Revolutionary War
- 2.2 French Revolutionary Wars
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Build
This project of John Williams, approved on April 2, 1766 , like the modern Salisbury type of Slade , was almost the same size as the HMS Romney , and only slightly increased compared to the code in 1745 . Not as fast as Salisbury in fine weather, but it was better in bad weather. In the years 1766-1770, 4 ships were ordered. However, in the late 1770s, the type was revived, and a total of 11 ships were built.
Ordered on January 18, 1766 . Launched on April 11, 1770 at the Royal Shipyard in Shirness . It was rebuilt on November 10, 1770 by Edward Hunt.
Service
It went into operation in September 1770 , in connection with the Falkland crisis ; Captain John Elliot
1771 - January 9 came out for a rendezvous with the East India convoy .
1772 - Captain Walter Stirling; in October put into reserve.
1773 - returned to service, captain Andrew Barkley ( born Andrew Barkley ); March 5 went to Jamaica.
1774 - Jamaica ; in September it was withdrawn to the reserve [1] .
American Revolutionary War
1775 - January, commissioned, captain Thomas Dumaresq ( born Thomas Dumaresq ); flagship of Vice Admiral James Young; April 26 went to the Leeward Islands , and later to Newfoundland .
1776 - North American Station ; On October 18, the American privatizer Putnam took it .
1778 - May 16, took the American privatir Eagle .
1779 - February-March, repair and plating with copper in Woolwich ; commissioned in March (?), captain Anthony Hunt ( Eng. Anthony Hunt ), the flagship of Rear Admiral Richard Edwards; June 11 left for Newfoundland; later in the fielding squadron; December 31 was in the Fielding-Bilandt case .
1780 - Captain Thomas Lloyd ( English Thomas Lloyd ), again under the flag of Edwards; May 30 went to Newfoundland; On December 19, French 20-gun Marquis de Seigniary took Le Havre .
1781 - Captain James Lutrell ( born James Luttrell ); May 29 left for Newfoundland; July 12, together with HMS Venus took the French Royal Louis (16) and Lion (10); together with HMS Aeolus and HMS Vestal took the American Disdain (16) and Captain (6).
1782 - April, Captain John Breton, the flagship of Vice Admiral John Campbell; June 16 went to Newfoundland.
1783 - April, withdrawn to the reserve and calculated [1] .
French Revolutionary Wars
1797 - returned to duty in November, Lieutenant James Manderson ( born James Manderson ); Portsmouth's floating prison .
1800 - August, withdrawn to the reserve; turned into a floating workshop in Portsmouth from October 1800 to August 1801 .
1802 - February-May, converted to transport prisoners in Portsmouth, delivered to Langston Harbor.
Sold at Portsmouth (?) On May 19, 1817 to Daniel List for £ 800 [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Winfield, ... p. 156.
- ↑ 1 2 3 By order of July 1779
Literature
- Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . - L.-St. Paul: Seaforth, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .