English ship Nonsuch (1646)

Nonsuch was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Navy, built by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1646.[1]

History
England
Name: HMS Nonsuch
Ordered: December 1645
Builder: Peter Pett I, Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 1646
Fate: Wrecked, 1664
General characteristics
Class and type: 34-gun fourth rate frigate
Tons burthen: 418 4494 bm
Length: 98 ft 0 in (29.9 m) (keel)
Beam: 28 ft 4 in (8.6 m)
Depth of hold: 14 ft 2 in (4.3 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament: 38 guns of various weights of shot

Nonsuch was wrecked in 1664.[2]

Notes

  1. Winfield 2009, p. 91
  2. Lavery 2003, p. 159

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.
  • Winfield, Rif (2009). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and fates. Seaforth. ISBN 9781848320406.


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