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Ramillies class ship of the line

HMS Ramillies in 1782.jpg
Loss of HMS Ramillies by Robert Dodd
Class overview
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
Length:
  • 168 ft 6 in (51.4 m) (gundeck)
  • 138 ft 3⅜ in (42.1 m) (keel) (first group)
  • 138 ft 1 in (42.1 m) (keel) (second group)
Beam:
  • 46 ft 9 in (14.2 m) (first group)
  • 46 ft 11 in (14.3 m) (second group)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement: 550 officers and men
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
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.

Dockyard-built ships:

Contract-built ships:


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