Duke - class battleships are four second-rank battleships built for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams. The first type of ships of the second rank, which was developed from the very beginning as 98-gun (earlier types of ships were built as 90-guns, and then, in the 80s of the XVIII century, were equipped with 8 more guns) [1] .
| Duke-class battleships | |
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| Duke-class ship of the line | |
 Duke type drawings | |
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| Preceding type | type barfleur |
| Subsequent type | type boyne |
| Years of construction | 1772 - 1788 |
| Years in the ranks | 1777 - 1843 |
| Built | four |
| Losses | one |
| Main characteristics | |
| Gondek length | 177 ft 6 in (54.10 m) |
| Keel length | 145 ft 3 in (44.27 m) |
| Midship Width | 50 ft (15 m) |
| Depth of intrum | 21 ft 2 in. (6.5 m) |
| Engines | Sail |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 98 |
| Gundeck Guns | 28 × 32 pound guns |
| Midsection of Midsection | 30 × 18-fn. guns |
| Guns on the operdek | 30 × 12-fn. guns |
| Guns on the Trench | 8 × 12-fn. guns |
| Guns on the tank | 2 × 12-fn. guns |
Ships
- Hms duke
Builder: Royal Shipyard in Plymouth
Ordered: June 18, 1771
Laid down: October 1772
Launched: October 18, 1777
Bred: Dismantled, 1843
- Hms glory
Builder: Royal Shipyard in Plymouth
Ordered: July 16, 1774
Laid down: April 7, 1775
Launched: July 5, 1788
Derived: disassembled, 1825
- Hms st george
Builder: Royal Shipyard in Portsmouth
Ordered: July 16, 1774
Laid down: August 1774
Launched: October 14, 1785
Bred: crashed in 1811
- HMS Atlas
Builder: Royal Shipyard in Chatham
Ordered: August 5, 1777
Laid down: October 1, 1777
Launched: February 13, 1782
Derived: disassembled, 1821
Notes
- ↑ B. Lavery. The Ship of the Line - Volume 1. - P. 179.
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 .