HMS York (Ship of His Majesty “York”) is a 64-gun battleship of the third rank . The sixth Royal Navy ship, named HMS York , in honor of the city of York in North Yorkshire . The ship was built for the British East India Company , but was bought by the Royal Navy after the start of the French Revolutionary Wars. Launched on March 24, 1796 at the private shipyard of Barnard in Deptford [1] .
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| Class and type of vessel | 3 rank battleship |
| Type of sailing weapon | Three mast ship |
| Organization | Great Britain |
| Manufacturer | Barnard, Deptford |
| Launched | March 24, 1796 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | crashed on reefs in 1804 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,433 tons ( BM ) |
| Gondek length | 174 ft 3 in (53.1 m) |
| Midship Width | 43 ft. 2 in. (13.16 m) |
| Depth of intrum | 19 ft. 7 in. (5.97 m) |
| Engines | Sail |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 64 |
| Gundeck Guns | 26 × 24 lb cannons |
| Guns on the operdek | 26 × 18 fnl. guns |
| Guns on the Trench | 10 × 4 fnl. guns |
| Guns on the tank | 2 × 9 fnl. guns |
Service
The ship was commissioned in May 1796 under the command of Captain John Ferrier, who was ordered to sail to Jamaica . The next few years, the ship spent blockading the French colony in the West Indies , mainly San Domingo .
February 8, 1798 at Cape Francois (now Cap-Haitien ), he intercepted the American schooner Fancy , with a displacement of 35 tons, which went from Charleston to St. Thomas. Noticing the British ship, the schooner tried to escape, and York had to give several shots before she surrendered. When the prize pool boarded, they found that passengers had pulled five bags of gold onto the deck and were ready to throw them overboard. This, of course, aroused suspicion, so Fancy was taken to Cape Moth, where she was accepted as a prize. James Aiken, a navigator with York , reported that the skipper Fancy told him that there was $ 25,000 in gold on board the schooner and that most of it had been smuggled ashore. [2]
The ship returned to England in mid-1803, after which it was sent to the dock at Woolwich for repairs. He sailed from Woolwich under the command of Captain Henry Mitford on December 26, 1803 for routine patrolling in the North Sea , but in January 1804 he crashed into reefs near Arbrot and sank. The entire crew of the ship, consisting of 491 sailors and officers, died with the ship [2] .
See also
- The largest marine disasters of the XIX century
Notes
- ↑ B. Lavery. The Ship of the Line - Volume 1. - P. 186.
- ↑ 1 2 Ships of the Old Navy
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. - 2nd edition. - Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .