HMS Portsmouth (1650)

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Portsmouth, 48-gun fourth-rate, built 1650, by Willem van de Velde.jpg
A port-quarter view portrait of the Portsmouth (Willem van de Velde, ca. 1675)
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English Red Ensign 1620.svg England
NamePortsmouth
BuilderEastwood, Portsmouth
Launched1650
FateBlown up, 1689
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Fourth-rate frigate
Length99 ft (30.2 m) (keel)
Beam28 ft 4 in (8.6 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 8 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament38 guns (at launch); 46 guns (1677)
Commodore Richard Beach and Dutch Admiral Van Ghent in a joint task force destroy six Barbary ships near Cape Spartel, Morocco, 17 August 1670, Portsmouth is the foremost ship shown Beach and Van Ghent destroy six Barbary ships near Cape Spartel, Morocco, 17 August 1670 RMG BHC0298.jpg
Commodore Richard Beach and Dutch Admiral Van Ghent in a joint task force destroy six Barbary ships near Cape Spartel, Morocco, 17 August 1670, Portsmouth is the foremost ship shown

Portsmouth was a 38-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Portsmouth, and launched in 1650. [1]

By 1677 her armament had been increased to 46 guns. Portsmouth was blown up in action in 1689. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p159.

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