HMS Windsor (1695)

HMS Windsor was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 31 October 1695.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Windsor.

History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Windsor
Builder: Snelgrove, Deptford
Launched: 31 October 1695
Honours and
awards:		 Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1747
Fate: Broken up, 1777
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 910 bm
Length: 146 ft 2.5 in (44.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 37 ft 9 in (11.5 m)
Depth of hold: 15 ft 8.5 in (4.8 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament: 60 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1729 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 1719 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 951 bm
Length: 144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 39 ft (11.9 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft 5 in (5.0 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament:
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 9 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs
General characteristics after 1745 rebuild[3]
Class and type: 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1201 bm
Length: 152 ft (46.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 42 ft (12.8 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 10 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament:
  • 58 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 24 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

On 18 November 1725 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and she was relaunched on 27 October 1729.[2] On 1 November 1742 an order was made out for Windsor to be taken to pieces once more, and rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard as a 58-gun fourth rate. Unusually, she was not reconstructed according to the establishment of dimensions in effect at the time (the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment), being made 5 ft (1.5 m) longer on the gundeck, 7 ft (2.1 m) longer on the keel, though with the same beam and 3 in (0.1 m) less depth to her hold than the standard 58s, and she was relaunched on 26 February 1745.[3]

Windsor remained in service until 1777, when she was broken up.[3]

Notes
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 163.
  2. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 170.
  3. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 172.

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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