British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates by Rif Winfield

Author:Rif Winfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Naval
ISBN: 9781783469246
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2010-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

At the time that James II left Britain, the Royal Navy included forty-one Fourth Rates:

the ‘broad-beamed’ Greenwich, Happy Return, Newcastle, Oxford, Saint David and Woolwich, each of 54/46 guns and 280/240/185 men;

Because this model shows only ten gunports a side on each deck, it is usually catalogued as a Fifth Rate of ‘unusually large dimensions’ dating from about 1685. At 1/4th scale it actually matches the 50-gun Sedgemoor very closely in size, with space for the additional guns required on the quarterdeck and forecastle. Furthermore, an ordnance list from 1687 shows the ship’s establishment as only twenty culverins on the lower deck, plus thirty sakers elsewhere (positions unspecified). Like the Saint Albans, this model also shows a square tuck stern, so this may have been a short-lived feature of this class. National Maritime Museum D1947–2.

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