English ship Happy Entrance (1619)

Happy Entrance[Note 1] was a middling ship of the English navy, built by Andrew Burrell at Deptford and launched in 1619.[1]

History
England
Name: Happy Entrance
Builder: Burrell, Deptford
Launched: 1619
Fate: Burnt, 1658
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Middling ship
Length: 96 ft (29 m) (keel)
Beam: 32 ft 2 in (9.80 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship

Happy Entrance was destroyed by fire in 1658.[1]

Notes

  1. The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the Eighteenth Century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively

References

Citations

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.

Bibliography

  • 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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