Loss of HMS Ramillies by Robert Dodd
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Ramillies |
Operators: | Royal Navy |
Preceded by: | Canada class |
Succeeded by: | Albion class |
In service: | 4 September 1762 – 1817 |
Completed: | 9 |
Lost: | 5 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Ship of the line |
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Propulsion: | Sails |
Complement: | 550 officers and men |
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Notes: | Ships in class include: Ramillies, Monarch, Magnificent, Marlborough, Terrible, Russell, Invincible, Robust, Prince of Wales |
The Ramillies-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.
The draught for the Ramillies-class was very similar to that of the Bellona-class and subsequent Arrogant-class, with the only real differences to be found in the shape of the underwater hull. There were two distinct sub-groups; four ships were built in the Royal Dockyards to the original design, approved on 25 April 1760 – although the name-ship Ramillies had originally been ordered as a Bellona-class unit. Slade subsequently amended his design for the ships which were to be built by commercial contractors – this modified design, with slightly amended dimensions, being approved on 13 January 1761.
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