1677 Construction Programme

Class overview
Name	1677 Construction Programme
Builders	Portsmouth Dockyard; Deptford Dockyard; Harwich Dockyard; Chatham Dockyard; Woolwich Dockyard; Francis Bayley, Bristol; Sir Henry Johnson, Blackwall;
Operators	Kingdom of England; Kingdom of Great Britain after 1707;
Preceded by	Royal Oak
Succeeded by	1691 Programme Group
Built	1677–1680
In service	1679–1765
Completed	20
Lost	13
Retired	7
General characteristics 1677 Specifications
Type	70/62-gun third-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,012 65⁄94 tons (bm)
Length	150 ft 0 in (45.72 m) gundeck; 121 ft 0 in (36.88 m) keel for tonnage;
Beam	39 ft 8 in (12.09 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 0 in (5.18 m)
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Complement	1677 – 460/380/300 personnel
Armament	1677 Establishment 70/62 guns; 26 × demi-cannons (54 cwt – 9.5 ft (LD); 26 × 12-pdr guns 32 cwt – 9 ft (UD); 10 × sakers 16 cwt – 7 ft (QD); 4 × sakers 16 cwt – 7 ft (Fc); 4 × 3-pdr guns 5 cwt – 5 ft (RH);

The 1677 Construction Programme was a group of Royal Navy ships of the line approved on 5 March 1677. This program authorised the construction of thirty new warships for the Royal Navy and was a compromise between the 40 ship programme proposed by Samuel Pepys in 1675 and the Parliamentary counter proposal of twenty ships in 1676.^[1] This programme included the construction of one first rate, nine second rates, and twenty third rate naval vessels.^[2]

^ Winfield (2009), p. 268.
^ Clowes 1898, Chapter XXII, page 248

[FOOTNOTEWinfield2009268-1] Winfield (2009), p. 268.

[2] Clowes 1898, Chapter XXII, page 248

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