HMS Nassau (1785)

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

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Silhouette of the ship-of-the-line Nassau
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Nassau
Ordered14 November 1782
BuilderHilhouse, Bristol
Laid downMarch 1783
Launched28 September 1785
FateWrecked 14 October 1799
General characteristics [1]
Class & typeArdent-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1384 (bm)
Length160 ft (49 m) (gundeck)
Beam44 ft 4 in (13.51 m)
Depth of hold19 ft (5.8 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 64 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Nassau was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1785 by Hilhouse in Bristol.[1]

One of her first ship's surgeons is thought to be John Sylvester Hay. He died young but he was the father of the actress Harriett Litchfield.[2]

During the Nore Mutiny she was commanded by Captain Edward O'Bryen. She was converted for use as a troopship in 1797.[1]

Nassau was wrecked on the Kicks sandbar off Texel, the Netherlands, on 14 October 1799, there being 205 survivors and about 100 lives lost.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 181.
  2. ^ K. A. Crouch, ‘Litchfield, Harriett (1777–1854)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 1 Feb 2015
  3. ^ The Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette, 11 November 1799

References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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