HMS Reserve (1704)

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History
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Name: HMS Reserve
Builder: Harding, Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 18 March 1704
Renamed: HMS Sutherland, 1716
Fate: Broken up, 1754
Notes: Hospital ship from 1741
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 676 long tons (686.8 t)
Length: 130 ft (39.6 m) (gundeck)
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Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 50 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Reserve was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 18 March 1704.[1]

Reserve was renamed HMS Sutherland in 1716, and converted to serve as a hospital ship in 1741. Sutherland was broken up in 1754.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.

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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