User:The Land/HMS Dragon (1760)
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| Name | HMS Dragon |
| Ordered | 28 December 1757 |
| Builder | Deptford Dockyard |
| Laid down | 28 March 1758 |
| Launched | 4 March 1760 |
| Commissioned | March 1760 |
| Fate | Sold out of the service, 1784 |
| Notes | Harbour service from 1781 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Bellona class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1614 tons (1639.9 tonnes) |
| Length | list error: <br /> list (help) 168 ft (51 m) (gundeck) 137 ft 11 in (42.04 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 46 ft 11 in (14.30 m) |
| Draught | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Depth of hold | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full rigged ship |
| Armament | list error: mixed text and list (help) 74 guns:
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HMS Dragon was a 74-gun Bellona Class Third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 March 1760 at Deptford.[1]
She was commissioned in 1760, under the command of the Hon. Augustus Hervey, as part of the Western Squadron. In October 1761 she sailed for the Leeward Islands, and until March 1763 was engaged in naval operations in the Caribbean, including the siege of Havannah in 1762.[2] as part of the Seven Years' War.
In March 1763 she was paid off, and recommissioned as a guardship at Portsmouth in May 1763, where she served until once again paid off in 1770.
From 1781 she was employed as a Receiving Ship at Portsmouth, before being finally paid off in 1783, and she was sold out of the service in 1784.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 176.
- ^ White, William (1849). Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. Oxford University Press. p. 43.
References
[edit]- 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.
- Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792; Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
This article includes data donated from the National Maritime Museum Warship Histories project