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.
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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: |
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Construction and commissioning
Notes
- 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.
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