Superb (ship, 1760)

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Bellona class
Ships of the line in the sea battle
Ships of the line in the sea battle
Overview
Type Two Decker - Battleship (Third rate)
units 5 built, 0 in service
Namesake Superb corresponds to the term "magnificent or magnificent"
1. Period of service flag
period of service

Royal Navy: 1760-1783

Technical specifications
23 years of service
displacement

1612  ts

length

168 ft (51.20 m)

width

46 ft 10.5 in (14.29 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 Superb 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 as well as fourteen additional each on the quarterdeck and four on the hut 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: April 12, 1758
    • Launched: October 27, 1760
    • Completed: December 19, 1760
    • Total cost including equipment: £ 38,118, 6 shillings
    • Seven Years War : The ship of the line Superb entered service in November 1760 under the command of Captain (Capt.) Joshua Rowley, who commanded the ship until 1763. In 1761 she was in Belleisle Bay.
    • In June 1762 the Dragon, together with the ships Gosport (44 cannons) and Danaë, a former French prize (38 cannons), saved an English convoy from the attack of a French squadron commanded by Commodore de Ternay.
    • The team dismissed in March 1763, presumably at the end of the Seven Years' War.
    • It was overhauled on September 17, 1763. The repair costs were not quantified.
    • The Superb was launched in October 1763 under the command of Capt. Robert Hathorn was put back into service and moved to Portsmouth as a guard ship, where she was equipped accordingly in April 1764.
    • 1764 were relocated on the Superb troops to the West Indies in the Caribbean .
    • Then she served the following years as a guard ship again, from January 1767 then under the command of Jonathan Faulknor, under whose command she ran in 1768 on a rock in front of the port of Cork on the Irish island of "Great Island", but was recovered.
    • In February 1768, the Superb was converted into a troop transport in Portsmouth, which cost 5941 pounds, 11 shillings and 6 pence.
    • In May 1770 the team signed off.
    • From March 1770 to January 1772, Portsmouth underwent a small to medium-sized shipyard overhaul at a cost of £ 23,222, 16 shillings, 3 pence.
    • The Superb was launched in July 1778 under the command of Capt. Robert Smiton was commissioned and first equipped in Portsmouth in November 1778 at a price of 5941 pounds, 11 shillings, 6 pence, and then served as the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Edward Hughes until 1783 .
    • On March 7, 1779, she set out for East India, where she destroyed the port facilities at Mangalore on December 8, 1780 .
    • From January 1782 the Superb was taken over by Capt. Stevens, who himself died after storming Fort Oostenberg near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka on February 11, 1782 and after participating in the Battle of Sadras on February 17, 1782 on March 1. Command therefore took over in March 1782 Cmdr. Dunbar Maclellan, who was promoted to captain in April 1782. Under this command, the Superb took part in the Battle of Providien on April 12, 1782 and the Battle of Negapatam on July 6, 1782, Capt. Dunbar Maclellan did not survive. In July 1782, Capt. Henry Newcome took command and led the ship in the Battle of Triconmalee on September 3, 1782 and the Battle of Cuddalore on June 20, 1783.
    • In 1783 the underwater ship of the Superb was clad with copper in the shipyard in Bombay.
    • The Superb leaked in the Tellicherry Toads Bombay on November 7, 1783 and sank.

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since the prefix HMS was only introduced for classified ships of the Royal Navy in 1789 , it was simply called Superb