HMS Blast (1695)

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English Red Ensign 1620.svg England
NameHMS Blast
Ordered9 January 1695
BuilderSir Henry Johnson, Blackwall Yard
Launched1695
Commissioned1695
Out of service1724
FateBroken up, Port Mahon
General characteristics
Class and type6-gun Serpent-class bomb vessel
Tons burthen143 1494 (bm)
Length
  • 66 ft 1 in (20.1 m) (overall)
  • 50 ft 6 in (15.4 m) (keel)
Beam23 ft 1 in (7.0 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 0 in (3.0 m)
PropulsionSail
Sail plan Ketch-rigged
Complement30
Armament
  • 4 × 2pdrs
  • 2 × 1212 in. mortars

HMS Blast was a Serpent-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports. Over a 30-year period she saw service in the fleets of Admirals Berkeley and Byng and took part in the British victory at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718.

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In 1721 she was converted to a storeship in British-controlled Port Mahón, and was broken up there in 1724. [1]

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  1. Winfield 2007, p. 338

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