HMS Neptune (1683)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Neptune
Builder:	John Shish, Deptford Dockyard
Launched:	1683
Renamed:	HMS Torbay, 1750
Fate:	Sold, 1784
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	90-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,497 long tons (1,521.0 t)
Length:	163 ft 11 in (50.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	90 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1710 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	1706 Establishment 90-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,576 long tons (1,601.3 t)
Length:	162 ft (49.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft (14.3 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	90 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs Middle gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 9 pdrs Quarterdeck: 10 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs
General characteristics after 1730 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	1719 Establishment 90-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,573 long tons (1,598.2 t)
Length:	164 ft (50.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 2 in (14.4 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 10 in (5.7 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	90 guns of various weights of shot

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Neptune.

HMS Neptune was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1683 at Deptford Dockyard.^[1]

She underwent her first rebuild at Blackwall, from where she was relaunched on 6 May 1710 as a 90-gun second rate built to the 1706 Establishment.^[2] On 11 August 1724 Neptune was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt as a 90-gun second rate to the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich, from where she was relaunched on 15 October 1730. She was renamed HMS Torbay and reduced to a 74-gun ship in 1750.^[3]