HMS Essex (1679)

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
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
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
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.

She was rebuilt at Rotherhithe in 1700, retaining her 70-gun armament. She underwent a second rebuild in 1713, 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.

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.