HMS Ruby (1745)

HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Bursledon in Hampshire to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 3 August 1745.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ruby.

Ruby, Diamond (renamed HMS Isis) and Jason, three of the six French ships of war, taken by the British Fleet 3 May, 1747 under the command of Lord Anson and Sir Peter Warren
History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Ruby
Ordered:	30 September 1743
Builder:	Ewer, Bursledon
Launched:	3 August 1745
Fate:	Broken up, 1765
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	1741 proposals 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	988 ​^68⁄94 (bm)
Length:	140 ft (42.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	40 ft (12.2 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 2 ^1⁄2 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

Ruby was broken up in 1765.[1][2]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p172.
2. Ships of the Old Navy, Liste of ships (R).

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.
• Michael Phillips. Liste of ships: (R). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 10 August 2008.