HMS Rye (1727)

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NameHMS Rye
Ordered11 May 1727
Builder Royal Dockyard, Chatham
Launched6 October 1727
CommissionedNovember 1727
FateBroken up at Sheerness, December 1735
General characteristics
Type20-gun Sixth Rate
Tons burthen371+45⁄94 bm
Length
  • 106 ft 0 in (32.3 m) gundeck
  • 87 ft 9 in (26.7 m) keel for tonnage
Beam28 ft 4 in (8.6 m) for tonnage
Depth of hold9 ft 2 in (2.8 m)
Sail plan ship-rigged
Armament20 × 6-pdr 19 cwt guns on wooden trucks (UD)

HMS Rye was a member of the 1719 Establishment Group of 20-gun sixth rates. [1] After commissioning she spent her career in Home waters on trade protection duties. She was broken up in 1735. [2]

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Rye was the second named vessel since it was used for a 32-gun fifth ratelaunched at Sheerness in 1696, rebuilt in 1717 as a 24-gun sixth rateused as a breakwater from 1727 and broken in December 1727. [3]

Construction

She was ordered on 11 May 1727 from Chatham Dockyard to be built under the guidance of Benjamin Rosewell, Master Shipwright of Chatham. She was launched on 6 October 1727. [4] She was completed on 7 February 1728 at a cost of 4,724.16.6d. [Note 1] She was surveyed on 13 November 1724. [5]

Commissioned service

She was commissioned in November 1727 under the command of Captain John Edwards, RN for service in Home Waters then on to Jamaica in 1731. With the death of Captain Edwards on 28 August 1731, Captain William Swale, RN took over becoming the Flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles Stewart. Her hull was sheathed with Doctor Hardisway's composition ('graved black') at Sheerness in November 1732. [6]

Disposition

HMS Rye was broken up at Sheerness in December 1735. [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ A total cost accounting for inflation of approximately £747,600 in today's money.

Citations

  1. ↑ Winfield 2007
  2. ↑ Winfield 2007
  3. ↑ Colledge
  4. ↑ Winfield 2007
  5. ↑ Winfield 2009
  6. ↑ Winfield 2007
  7. ↑ Winfield 2007

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