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Guernsey

HMS Guernsey

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateFourth rate
Guns50 guns
WarSeven Years' War

Fifty-gun ship at Lagos.

The 'Guernsey' before a light breeze A starboard broadside view of the ‘Guernsey’ before a light breeze under fore course and fore and main topsails. Another ship is close-hauled on the port tack in the right background. This is an unsigned pen and brown ink drawing by the Younger. It is inscribed ‘ Photo: Willem Van de Velde, the Younger, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 50 guns of various weights of shot
BuilderSir Henry Johnson, Blackwall Yard
Launched6 July 1696
Length131 ft 9 in (40.2 m) (gundeck) 109 ft (33.2 m) (keel)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

6 July 1696

18–19 August 1759

Fate

Survived

Sold, 2 February 1786