Dragon (ship, 1760)

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Bellona class
HMS Dragon (center) during the siege of Havana
HMS Dragon (center) during the siege of Havana
Overview
Type Two Decker - Battleship (Third rate)
units 5 built, 0 in service
Namesake Dragon (mythology)
1. Period of service flag
period of service

Royal Navy: 1760-1783

Technical specifications
23 years of service
displacement

1617  ts

length

168 ft (51.20 m)

width

46 ft 11 in (14.30 m)

Draft

19ft 9in ft (6.02 m)

crew

550

drive

sail

speed

approx. 12–13  kn

Range

unlimited

Armament
  • 28 × 32 pounder in the lower battery deck
  • 28 × 18 pounder in the upper battery deck
  • 14 × 9 pounders on the upper deck
  • 4 × 9 pounders on the cabin deck

The Dragon was one of five ships of the Bellona-class and a two-decker - battleship of the Royal Navy . The design of the class was in the hands of the Surveyors (such as the fleet supervisor) and Master Shipwright Sir Thomas Slade . The class carried 74 cannons in two battery decks, twenty-eight each on the two continuous cannon decks, plus fourteen additional each on the quarterdeck and four on the cabin deck . This armament allowed a broadside weight (the weight of full bullets fired with one broadside) of 781 pounds .

chronology

  • Builder: Deptford State Shipyard
  • Appointed: December 28, 1757
  • Keel laying: March 23, 1758
  • Launched: March 4, 1760
  • Completed: April 19, 1760
  • Total cost including equipment: £ 38,118, 6 shillings
  • Seven Years War : The ship of the line Dragon was put into service in March 1760 under the command of Captain (Capt.) Augustus Hervey, who commanded the ship with interruptions until 1763, and assigned to the Western Squadron. In June 1761 the Dragon was temporarily taken over by Capt. Archibald Cleveland and shortly thereafter Capt. John Lendick was in command while the Dragon lay in Belleisle Bay from April 6th to June 8th, 1761.
  • She ran out on October 30, 1761 to the West Indian Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. From January 7, 1762 to February 10, 1762 she took part in the invasion of Martinique. On February 24th and 25th, 1762 she was in front of St. Lucia and in April drove to Jamaica to block Cape Francois. From June 6, 1762 to August 13, 1762, the Dragon took part in the siege of Havana , which ended with the capture of the Spanish city by the British.
  • In November 1762 she was again in Portsmouth and was overhauled and equipped as a guard ship by February 10, 1763.
  • The team dismissed in March 1763, presumably at the end of the Seven Years' War.
  • The Dragon was born in May 1763 under Capt. John Montagu put back into service, again stationed in Portsmouth and remained as a guard ship until 1769 also under Capt. John Beniick (from 1766 to 1768) and Capt. Robert Hughes (from 1769 to 1770) in action.
  • The Dragon was converted into a troop transport in April 1769 for 3,671 pounds, 19 shillings and 10 pence.
  • The team dismissed in April 1770.
  • The Dragon was overhauled by February 21, 1770.
  • By order of the Admiralty (United Kingdom) on August 26, 1780, the Dragon was converted into a supply ship from September to November 1780 for 1,065 pounds, 3 shillings, 1 penny, and set up for a crew of 92 men. In October 1780 she was placed under the command of Cmdr. Samuel Osborn posed. In July 1782, Cmdr. Thomas Ley took over until the team signed off in March 1783.
  • On June 1, 1784, the Dragon was sold for 620 pounds in Portsmouth.

literature

  • Rif Winfield: British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792. Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley 2007, ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6 .