HMS_Britannia_(1719)

HMS <i>Britannia</i> (1682)

HMS Britannia (1682)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Britannia.

HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 27 June 1682.[3]

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On 19 May 1692 she was the allied fleet flagship at the Battle of Barfleur.[4]

In 1705 she took on board Charles III of Spain, when on her way to Catalonia[1]

In 1715, Britannia was ordered to be taken to pieces[1] and rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard, from where she relaunched on 30 October 1719, again as a 100-gun first rate.[2]

Britannia was placed on harbour service in 1745, and was broken up in 1749.[2]

She was captained from 1734 to 1736 by Sir Tancred Robinson.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 162.
  2. [2]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 165.
  3. [3]
    "No. 1734". The London Gazette. 27 June 1682. p. 2.
  4. [4]
    "The Battle of Barfleur, 19 May 1692". Roya Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Sir Tancred Robinson (d. 1754)". Retrieved 3 December 2013.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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