Prince

An English First Rate war ship of 90-100 guns designed and built by Phineas Pett.
Dimensions in 1692 were: 136'6" x 47'2" x 18'. 1568 tons.
Armament: 28 × 32l, 28 × 18l, 28 × 9l.
1670
Launched at the Chatham Royal Dockyard.
1692
Great repair or rebuilt as the Royal William at the Chatham Royal Dockyard by Lee.
Model:
1670 Prince, English .
Location:
Science Museum, London. Inv. No. 1895-56.
Scale:
1:48
Dimensions:
131' (length of keel)x45'8"x19'
History:
Bought by the Science Museum in 1895.
Photographs:
Neg 79:25-29, Neg 105:02-04, Neg 105:13-17.
Chatterton (1923), plate 34.
Culver (1926), plate 12 (starboard broadside, with the first rigging).
Science Museum 3665 (port bow) = NRJ Vol. 28, p 149; 3666* (starboard broadside), 4122 (stern), 3664* (quarter), 268/38 (beakhead).
498/9-55, 101/7-56, 788-66, 646/9-68.
Stevens (1949), plate 8a (stern), 8b (quarter gallery).
Laver II, p 50 (starboard bow); p 54 (port entry port).
Bibliography:
Sailing Ships, No. 50, p 29-30.
A Navy Board style model which was unrigged when it was bought by the Science Museum in 1895. Three years later it was re-rigged in an unsatisfactory way, the model has subsequently been re-rigged correctly.

The central part of the rail at the break of the quarter deck is missing and there seems to be no evidence that it was ever fitted.

There is a set of lines at the Science Museum taken from the original model in 1938.

Once believed to be the "Royal Charles" of 1672.

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