HMS Exeter (1680)

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Name: HMS Exeter
Builder: Johnson, Blackwall
Launched: 1680
Fate: Hulked, 1691
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,059 long tons (1,076.0 t)
Length: 150 ft 8 in (45.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft 4 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Exeter.

HMS Exeter was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Henry Johnson at Blackwall and launched in March 1680.[1]

Exeter was hulked 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.
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