HMS Coronation (1685)

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Career (England) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Coronation
Builder: Betts, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched: 1685
Fate: Wrecked, 1691
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 90-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,427 long tons (1,449.9 t)
Length: 160 ft 4 in (48.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 44 ft 9 in (13.6 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 2 in (5.5 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 90 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Coronation was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1685.[1]

Coronation was wrecked in 1691.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p162.

[edit] 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.