Battleships of the Crown type - three 64-gun battleships of the third rank , built for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt according to the project, approved on October 14, 1778. The project was distinguished by a slightly longer length and an additional pair of cannon ports at the opera deck, under linear guns. It is not known whether they had permanent guns or not. In any case, these ports were too close to the corral for livestock, so their use was clearly constrained [1] .
| Crown battleships | |
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| Crown-class ship of the line | |
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| Project | |
| A country |
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| Operators |
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| Preceding type | type flexible |
| Subsequent type | no |
| Years of construction | 1779 - 1783 |
| Years in the ranks | 1782 - 1816 |
| Built | 3 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Gondek length | 160 ft 5 in (48.9 m) |
| Keel length | 131 ft 5 in (40.06 m) |
| Midship Width | 44 feet 10 inches (13.67 m) |
| Depth of intrum | 19 feet (5.8 m) |
| Engines | Sail |
| 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 × 4-fnl. guns |
| Guns on the tank | 2 × 9-fnl. guns |
By the time the project was developed, 64-gun battleships were already considered weakly suitable for squadron combat, and therefore the Crown type was the last of the British 64-gun ship types. After it, only 74-cannon and higher were designed [2] .
Ships
- Hms crown
Builder: Perry, Blackwall
Ordered: October 14, 1778
Laid down: September 1779
Launched: May 15, 1782
Derived: disassembled in 1816
- Hms ardent
Builder: Staves & Parsons, Bursledon
Ordered: September 9, 1779
Laid down: October 1780
Launched: December 21, 1782
Bred: exploded in 1794
- Hms scipio
Builder: Barnard, Deptford
Ordered: November 11, 1779
Mortgaged: January 1780
Launched: October 22, 1782
Derived: disassembled in 1798
Notes
- ↑ Winfield, p. 110
- ↑ B. Lavery. The Ship of the Line - Volume 1. - P. 181.
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 .
- Rif Winfield. = British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. - Seaforth Publishing. - ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .