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Class overview |
Name | Albion |
Operators |
Royal Navy |
Preceded by |
Ramillies class |
Succeeded by |
Elizabeth class |
In service | 16 May 1763 - 1820 |
Completed | 5 |
Lost | 1 |
General characteristics |
Type |
Ship of the line |
Length |
- 168 ft (51.2 m) (gundeck)
- 139 ft 3⁄4 in (42.4 m) (keel)
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Propulsion | Sails |
Armament |
- 74 guns:
- Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
- Quarterdeck: 14 × 9-pounders
- Forecastle: 4 × 9-pounders
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The Albion-class
ships of the line were a class of five 74-gun
third rates, designed for the
Royal Navy by Sir
Thomas Slade.
Slade based the design of the Albion-class on the lines of the 90-gun ship
Neptune.
- Builder:
Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 1 December 1759
- Launched: 16 May 1763
- Fate: Wrecked, 1797
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 22 October 1767
- Launched: 26 September 1771
- Fate: Broken up, 1816
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 21 August 1774
- Launched: 30 July 1779
- Fate: Broken up, 1817
- Builder: Randall,
Rotherhithe
- Ordered: 2 February 1778
- Launched: 23 March 1780
- Fate: Broken up, 1820
- Builder: Barnard,
Harwich
- Ordered: 8 July 1778
- Launched: 6 December 1782
- Fate: Broken up, 1806
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press.
ISBN
0-85177-252-8.