As with most vessels of this time period only order and launch dates are available. The dimensional data listed here is the specification data and the acceptable design creep will be listed on each individual vessel. The gundeck was 108feet with a keel length of 88feet for tonnage calculation. The breadth would be 28feet with a depth of hold of 10feet. The tonnage calculation would be tons. The ships would be sail powered carrying a ship-rigged sail plan. Also there was a provision for ten oar ports per side located between the gun ports on the lower deck. Lyme and Scarborough would be rebuilt to the 1719 establishment for 20-gun vessels. The establishment dimensions were 106feet with a keel length of 87feet for tonnage calculation. The breadth would be 28feet with a depth of hold of 9feet. The tonnage calculation would be 374 tons (bm).[2] [3]
The gun armament initially was four demi-culverines[4] mounted on wooden trucks on the lower deck (LD) with two pair of guns per side. The upper deck (UD) battery would consist of between twenty and twenty-two sakers[5] guns mounted on wooden trucks with ten or eleven guns per side. The gun battery would be completed by four to six minions[6] guns mounted on wooden trucks on the quarterdeck (QD) with two to three guns per side. In the 1703 Establishment the old gun designations would be replaced by a system that designated the guns by the weight of shot fired. The demi-culverines would become known as 9-pounders, the sakers as 6-pounders and the minions as 4-pounders. Therefore, their armament as of 1703 for Shoreham and Sorlings would be listed as four 9-pounder guns on the lower deck (LD), twenty 6-pounder 19 hundredweight (cwt) guns on the upper deck (UD) with four 4-pounder 12 cwt guns on the quarterdeck (QD). For Scarborough, Faversham, Looe(ii) and Bridgewater would be rerated as 36-gun vessels with an increase in the 9-pounders to eight guns. The 4-pounders would be removed in 1714. Under the 1719 Establishment the guns would be established as twenty 6-pounders on the upper deck (UD).[2]
Name | Builder | Launch date | Remarks |
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Mr Flint, Plymouth | 20 April 1695 |
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(i) | Thomas Ellis, Shoreham | 5 February 1695 |
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William Hubbard, Ipswich | 6 March 1695 |
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Thomas Ellis, Shoreham | 13 September 1695 |
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Sheerness Dockyard | 7 June 1696 |
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James Parker, Southampton | 24 March 1696 |
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(i) | Plymouth Dockyard | 5 August 1696 |
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Thomas Ellis, Shoreham | 24 April 1696 |
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Thomas Burgess & William Briggs, Shoreham | 7 May 1696 |
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(i) | John Knowler, Redbridge | 3 September 1696 |
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William Collins, Shoreham | 3 September 1696 |
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Joseph Nye & George Moore, East Cowes | 6 August 1696 |
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Thomas Ellis and William Collins, Shoreham | 1 October 1696 |
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(ii) | Isaac Betts, Woodbridge | 17 May 1698 |
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Chatham Dockyard | 16 August 1697 |
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(ii) | Portsmouth Dockyard | 15 October 1697 |
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(ii) | Deptford Dockyard | 16 November 1697 |
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Sheerness Dockyard | 30 May 1698 |
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Mrs Ann Mundy, Woodbridge | 12 September 1698 |
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