HMS Exeter (1697)

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Plan of Exeter's rebuild of 1744
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Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg Great Britain
NameHMS Exeter
BuilderBagwell, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched26 May 1697
FateBroken up, 1763
General characteristics as built [1]
Class and type60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen949
Length148 ft (45.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam38 ft 2 in (11.6 m)
Depth of hold15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament60 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1744 rebuild [2]
Class and type 1733 proposals 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1068
Length144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam41 ft 5 in (12.6 m)
Depth of hold16 ft 11 in (5.2 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 9 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Exeter was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 26 May 1697. [1]

She was involved in repeated actions against the French, in 1702 off Newfoundland, and in 1705 when she captured the frigate Thétis. She was in the Mediterranean in 1711, and at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. She was rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth, and relaunched on 19 March 1744. She was at the siege of Pondicherry in 1748. Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood briefly served aboard her.

Exeter continued to serve until 1763, when she was broken up. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 163.
  2. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 171.

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