A fifth-rate warship being refitted, sketched by Willem van de Velde the Younger, believed to be Dartmouth
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History | |
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England | |
Name | HMS Dartmouth |
Ordered | 28 December 1654 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Cost | £1,693-5-0d |
Launched | 22 September 1655 |
Commissioned | 1655 |
Fate | Wrecked 9 October 1690 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 22-gun fifth-rate frigate |
Tons burthen | 260.7 tons bm |
Length | 80 ft (24.4 m) (keel) |
Beam | 24 ft 9 in (7.5 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament |
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HMS Dartmouth was a small frigate or fifth-rate ship, one of six ordered by the English Council of State on 28 December 1654, and built in 1655.