HMS Carlisle (1698)

History
Royal Navy EnsignEngland
NameHMS Carlisle
Ordered24 December 1695
BuilderElias Waffe, Plymouth Dockyard
Launched16 May 1698
FateAccidentally blown up, 19 September 1700
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and type50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen709 8⁄94 bm
Length132 ft (40.2 m) (on gundeck) 112 ft (34.1 m) (keel)
Beam34 ft 6 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 2 in (4.0 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament50 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Carlisle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built (six by commercial contract and two in the Royal Dockyards); the others were the Hampshire, Dartmouth, Winchester, Salisbury, Worcester, Jersey and Tilbury. Construction of the Carlisle was awarded to Plymouth Dockyard, where she was designed and built by Master Shipwright Elias Waffe, and she was launched there on 16 May 1698.[1][2] ]

It was accidentally blown up in the Downs on 19 September 1700, with the loss of 124 men - almost all aboard her - and there were just 8 survivors (although Captain Francis Dove survived as he was ashore at the time).[1][3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714, p.137.
  2. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 164.
  3. ^ David J. Hepper, British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1659-1859 (Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, East Sussex, 1994) ISBN 0-948864-30-3.

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.
  • Winfield, Rif (1997), The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History. Chatham Publishing (1st edition); Mercury Books (2nd edition 2005). ISBN 1-845600-09-6.
  • Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.


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