HMS Nassau (1699)

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English Red Ensign 1620.svg England
NameHMS Nassau
Ordered1695
BuilderWaffe, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched2 August 1699
FateWrecked, 30 October 1706
General characteristics [1]
Class and type70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1080
Length150 ft 9 in (45.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam40 ft (12.2 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 2 in (5.2 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament70 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Nassau was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 2 August 1699. [1] [2]

The ship, with a crew of at least 440 officers and men and under the command of Captain Dove, formed part of the Anglo-Dutch fleet which captured Gibraltar on 4 August 1704 (War of the Spanish Succession).

Nassau was wrecked on 30 October 1706. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p163.
  2. 1 2 "British Third Rate ship of the line 'Nassau' (1699)". Threedecks. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

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