HMS Sedgemoor was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1687.[1]
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Name | HMS Sedgemoor |
Builder | Lee, Chatham Dockyard |
Launched | 1687 |
Fate | Wrecked, 1689 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 677 tons |
Length | 123 ft (37.5 m) (gundeck) |
Beam | 34 ft 6 in (10.5 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft 7 in (4.1 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament | 50 guns of various weights of shot |
Sedgemoor was driven ashore and wrecked at South Foreland, Kent on 2 January 1689.[2]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p162.
- ^ Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret: David & Charles. p. 46. ISBN 0-7153-7202-5.
References
edit- 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.