HMS Nassau (1706)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Nassau.

Plan of the 1740 rebuild of Nassau
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Nassau
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Launched9 January 1706
FateSold, 1770
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1104 tons BM
Length150 ft 6 in (45.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam41 ft (12.5 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 4 in (5.3 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1740 rebuild[2]
Class and type1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1225 tons BM
Length151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement410-480[3]
Armament
  • 70 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12-pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 6-pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 6-pdrs

HMS Nassau was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 9 January 1706.[1]

Orders were issued on 25 May 1736 directing Nassau to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Chatham, from where she was relaunched on 25 September 1740.[2]

In February 1747 Nassau was listed as under the command of Captain Holcombe.[3] In May of that year, Nassau captured on passage from Corsica to Genoa two troop transports carrying 210 Spanish and French soldiers and officers.[4]

Attack on Gorée, 29 December 1758. Nassau and Dunkirk are on the far side of the fort's mole showing only their upper galleries and spars as they engage the fort's batteries on their port sides

In 1758 she participated in the British Capture of Senegal, captained by Captain James Sayer.[5]

Nassau was sold out of the navy in 1770.[2]

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.
  2. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p171.
  3. ^ a b "A General List of His Majesty's Royal Navy". The Scots Magazine. British Newspaper Archive. 6 February 1747. p. 94. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  4. ^ "From the London Gazette". Derby Mercury. British Newspaper Archive. 8 May 1747. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  5. ^ "1758 - British expedition against Fort Louis in Senegal - Project Seven Years War". www.kronoskaf.com. Project Seven Years War. Retrieved 20 August 2021.