Ramillies-class ship of the line
 Loss of HMS Ramillies by Robert Dodd | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Ramillies |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: | Arrogant 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.
Design
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.
Ships
First group
Dockyard-built ships:
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 1 December 1759
- Laid down: 25 August 1760
- Launched: 25 April 1763
- Completed: November 1763
- Fate: Abandoned and burned off Newfoundland, 21 September 1782.
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 22 November 1760
- Laid down: 2 June 1761
- Launched: 20 July 1765
- Completed: 24 September 1765
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham, March 1813
- HMS Magnificent
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 16 December 1761
- Laid down: 15 April 1762
- Launched: 20 September 1767
- Completed: September 1778
- Fate: Wrecked off Brest, 25 March 1804.
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 4 December 1762
- Laid down: 3 June 1763
- Launched: 26 August 1767
- Completed: 1 December 1767
- Fate: Wrecked off Belle Île, 4 November 1800
Second (modified) group
Contract-built ships:
- Builder: John Barnard, Harwich
- Ordered: 1 January 1761
- Laid down: February 1761
- Launched: 4 September 1762
- Completed: 18 December 1762
- Fate: Burned following the Battle of Chesapeake, 11 September 1781
- Builder: Thomas West, Deptford
- Ordered: 1 January 1761
- Laid down: June 1761
- Launched: 10 November 1764
- Completed: 6 January 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard
- Fate: Sold out of the service in the East Indies, 1811
- Builder: John and William Wells, Deptford
- Ordered: 12 October 1761
- Laid down: December 1761
- Launched: 9 March 1765
- Completed: February 1777 at Chatham Dockyard.
- Fate: Wrecked off Yarmouth, 16 March 1801
- Builder: John Barnard, Harwich
- Ordered: 16 December 1761
- Laid down: February 1762
- Launched: 25 October 1764
- Completed: 10 December 1764
- Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth, January 1817
- Builder: Henry Bird and Roger Fisher, Milford Haven
- Ordered: 16 December 1762
- Laid down: March 1762
- Launched: 4 June 1765
- Completed: 22 December 1770 at Plymouth Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Plymouth, August 1783
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.