Royal Charles (1673)
The Royal Charles was an English ship of the line with 100 guns. The ship was launched in Portsmouth in March 1673 . The Royal Charles was the second ship of this name after the first Royal Charles , originally the Commonwealth ship Naseby , was captured by the Dutch in 1667 during the raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War . The builder of the Royal Charles was Anthony Deane and its dimensions corresponded to the 100-gun ship Royal James , which was sunk by the Dutch in 1672. After the House of Stuart lost the throne in the Glorious Revolution , the ship was renovated from 1691 to 1693 in the Woolwich Dockyards and renamed Queen . In 1715 the ship was renovated again and first sailed as Royal George , from 1756 as Royal Anne . In 1767 the ship was finally scrapped.
The new building of the Royal Charles from 1673 is described as very rolling. So their flag officer, Prince Rupert , moved to another ship during the naval battle off Schooneveld . As part of the renovations, the ship was significantly rebuilt, so the tonnage increased during the rebuilding in 1693 from 1443 tons to 1658 tons and the keel length increased by around 10 m to 52 m. After the reconstruction of 1715, the ship even displaced 1801 tons.
literature
- Brian Lavery: The Ship of the Line. Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet, 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press, London 2003, ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .
- Rif Winfield: British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714. Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley 2009, ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6 .