HMS Nassau (1706)

HMS Nassau was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 9 January 1706.[1]

Plan of the 1740 rebuild of Nassau
History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Nassau
Builder:	Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched:	9 January 1706
Fate:	Sold, 1770
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1104 tons BM
Length:	150 ft 6 in (45.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	41 ft (12.5 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 4 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1740 rebuild[2]
Class and type:	1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1225 tons BM
Length:	151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	410-480[3]
Armament:	70 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 6 pdrs

Orders were issued on 25 May 1736 directing Nassau to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Chatham, from where she was relaunched on 25 September 1740.[2]

In February 1747 Nassau was listed as under the command of Captain Holcombe.[3] In May of that year, Nassau captured on passage from Corsica to Genoa two troop transports carrying 210 Spanish and French soldiers and officers.[4]

Attack on Gorée, 29 December 1758. Nassau and Dunkirk are on the far side of the fort's mole showing only their upper galleries and spars as they engage the fort's batteries on their port sides

Nassau was sold out of the navy in 1770.[2]