English ship Mary Rose (1623)

Mary Rose was a 24-gun fourth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1620s.[Note 1] Commissioned in 1624, she played a minor role as a Parliamentarian ship in the English Civil War. The ship was wrecked in a storm off the Flanders coast in 1650.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mary Rose.

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Mary Rose
Ordered:	3 February 1623
Builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	February 1817
Launched:	1623
Commissioned:	August 1624
Fate:	Wrecked, March 1650
General characteristics
Type:	Fourth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	384 bm
Length:	83 ft (25.3 m) (at the keel)
Beam:	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft (4 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	120
Armament:	24 guns: 8 × demi-culverins 10 × sakers 2 × falcons 4 × minions

Construction and commissioning

Notes

1. The "HMS" prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively

Citations

Bibliography

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Winfield, Rif (2009). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78346-924-6.