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Jersey

HMS Jersey

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateFourth rate
Guns60 guns
WarSeven Years' War

Ship of the line at Lagos. Later a prison hulk at New York in the American War of Independence, where thousands of American prisoners died aboard her.

Figure 1 from Recollections of the Jersey prison ship: from the orginal manuscripts of Capt. Thomas Dring, one of the prisoners. Captioned: "The Jersey Prison Ship as moored at the Wallabout near Long Island, in the year 1782." Photo: Thomas Dring, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

60 guns

  • Gundeck: 24 × 24-pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 9-pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6-pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6-pdrs
BuilderPlymouth Dockyard
Launched14 June 1736
Length144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck)

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

Career

Launched

14 June 1736

18–19 August 1759

Fate

Survived

Abandoned and burned to prevent capture, 1783