HMS Essex (1679)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Essex.
Battle of Quiberon Bay: the Day After (Richard Wright, 1760) Essex is the more distant ship on its side, to the left of HMS Resolution
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Essex
Builder: Johnson, Blackwall Yard
Launched: 1679
Fate: Wrecked, 21 October 1759
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1072 tons BM
Length: 150 ft 2 in (45.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft (12.2 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft 9.5 in (5.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1700 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1090 tons BM
Length: 150 ft 4 in (45.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft 7.5 in (12.4 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1713 rebuild
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
General characteristics after 1740 rebuild[3]
Class and type: 1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1225
Length: 151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 70 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 6 pdrs

HMS Essex was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1679.[1]

She was rebuilt at Rotherhithe in 1700, retaining her 70-gun armament. She underwent a second rebuild in 1713,[2] and on 20 May 1736 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich as a 70-gun third rate to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 21 February 1740.[3]

Essex was wrecked on the Four Shoal in 1759, eighty years after she was first launched, while chasing the French flagship Soleil Royal after the Battle of Quiberon Bay.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p162.
  2. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.
  3. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p170.
  4. ↑ Corbett, Julian S. (1907), England In The Seven Years War vol II, Longmans Green, p. 68

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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