HMS Ramillies (1785)
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| Name: | HMS Ramillies |
| Ordered: | 19 June 1782 |
| Builder: | Randall, Rotherhithe |
| Laid down: | December 1782 |
| Launched: | 12 July 1785 |
| Fate: | Broken up, February 1850 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Culloden-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1677 17⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 170 ft 4 in (51.92 m) (gundeck); 1,390 ft 9 in (423.90 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft 11 1⁄2 in (6.083 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Armament: | |
HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe.
On 4 April 1796, Ramilies ran down and sank the hired armed lugger Spider while maneuvering.
In 1801, Ramilies was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen, and so did not take an active part in the battle.
In 1807 Ramillies was in the West Indies as part of a squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, who sailed in HMS Belleisle. The squadron, which included HMS Prince George, HMS Northumberland, HMS Canada and HMS Cerberus, captured the Telemaco, Carvalho and Master on 17 April 1807.
Following the concern in Britain that neutral Denmark was entering an alliance with Napoleon, in December Ramillies participated in Cochrane's expedition that captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless.
In August 1812, Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy took command of Ramillies and was sent to North America at the outbreak of the War of 1812. Hardy led the fleet in Ramillies that escorted and transported the army commanded by John Coape Sherbrooke which captured significant portions of eastern coastal Maine (then part of Massachusetts), including Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Machias, Bangor, and Castine.
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