:::: Dutch Wars to Seven Year War Vessels - ENGLAND
ELIZABETH
Code - DUB09
£3.50
Description - ELIZABETH – 70 GUN THIRD RATE
Launched 1679, she served as Flagship at Bantry
Bay in 1689, but was taken by the French in 1704.
Sisters:- Captain, Hope, Hampton Court,Lennox, Restoration, Breda,
Berwick, Eagle, Essex, Expedition, Grafton, Kent, Northumberland,
Burford, Pendennis, Stirling Castle, Exeter & Suffolk.
Dimensions 152’ x 41’
Armament (1685) 22 x 36 pdr Demi-cannon
4 x 18 pdr Culverin, 26 x 12 pdr
14 x 5 pdr Saker, 4 x 3 pdr
The class served throughout William III’s
Wars, 14 being at Beachy Head in 1690 and 16 at
Barfleur in 1692. Most were rebuilt 1699-1702.