HMS Rupert (1666)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Rupert
Builder:	Anthony Deane, Harwich Dockyard
Launched:	26 January 1666
Fate:	Broken up, 1769
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	791 tons (803.7 tonnes)
Length:	119 ft (36 m) (keel)
Beam:	36 ft 3 in (11.0 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 1 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	320 (later 400)
Armament:	64 guns as built, comprising 22 demi-cannon, 28 culverins and 14 demi-culverins
General characteristics after 1703 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	66-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	930 tons (944.9 tonnes)
Length:	143 ft 4 in (43.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	38 ft 4 in (11.7 m)
Depth of hold:	15 ft 2 in (4.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	66 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1740 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1070 tons (1087.2 tonnes)
Length:	144 ft (44 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	41 ft 5 in (12.6 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 11 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	60 guns of various weights of shot

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

HMS Rupert was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered on 26 October 1664 as part of the ship construction programme of that year. She was launched on 26 January 1666 at Harwich Dockyard.

By 1677 the Rupert carried a complement of 400 men and 66 guns (comprising 26 x 24-pounders, 24 x 12-pounders, 14 sakers [5-pounders] and 2 x 3-pounders), but by 1685 she was carrying only 64 guns again (comprising 24 x 24-pounders, 2 culverins, 26 x 12-pounders, and 12 demi-culverins). In 1697 she was taken into Plymouth Dockyard to be rebuilt by Rosewell, and she launched again in November 1703 as a 66-gun third rate once again. In 1716 she was reduced to a fourth rate, and on 16 August 1736 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Sheerness Dockyard, although by this date the practice of rebuilding had become a legal fiction, and 'rebuilt ships were in practice new vessels incorporating a small portion of their predecessor's timber into the construction. She was relaunched on 27 October 1740 as 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line.

Rupert was broken up in 1769.