HMS Weymouth (1693)

HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 8 August 1693.[1][3]

Etching taken from A voyage (in 1721) to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies; in His Majesty's Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth by John Atkins (naval surgeon) pub. 1735
History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Weymouth
Ordered:	1693
Builder:	Stigant, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched:	8 August 1693
Fate:	Broken up, 1732
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type:	50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	673 bm
Length:	132 ft 4 in (40.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	34 ft 3 in (10.4 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1719 rebuild[2]
Class and type:	1706 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	715 bm
Length:	130 ft (39.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	35 ft (10.7 m)
Depth of hold:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 18 pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 9 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

She was rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, relaunching on 26 February 1719. Weymouth continued to serve until 1732, when she was broken up.[2]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 164.
2. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol.1 , p. 168.
3. "British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Weymouth' (1693)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 September 2019.

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.