HMS ''Carlisle'' was a 50-gun
fourth rate
In 1603 all English warships with a complement of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers, a six-tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided ...
ship of the line
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of the
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, one of eight such ships authorised by the
Navy Board
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on 24 December 1695 to be newly built (six by commercial contract and two in the
Royal Dockyards); the others were the
''Hampshire'',
''Dartmouth'',
''Winchester'',
''Salisbury'',
''Worcester'',
''Jersey'' and
''Tilbury''. Construction of the ''Carlisle'' was awarded to
Plymouth Dockyard
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, where she was designed and built by Master Shipwright Elias Waffe, and she was launched there on 16 May 1698.
[Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714'', p.137.]
]
It was accidentally blown up in the Downs on 19 September 1700, with the loss of 124 men - almost all aboard her - and there were just 8 survivors (although Captain Francis Dove survived as he was ashore at the time).
[Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714'', p.137.][David J. Hepper, ''British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1659-1859'' (Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, East Sussex, 1994) .]
Notes
References
*Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850''. Conway Maritime Press. .
* Winfield, Rif (1997), ''The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History''. Chatham Publishing (1st edition); Mercury Books (2nd edition 2005). .
* Winfield, Rif (2009) ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing.'' .
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