Sailing Warships: HMS Rose.

A 20-gun 6th-rate ship built in 1757 at Hugh Blaydes Shipyard, Hull. The Seaford class of 1753 was built to the lines of the yacht Royal Caroline (1750) [vide Chapman's Architectura Navalis Mercatoria] for the British Royal Navy . The dimensions of the Seaford-class were: 108', 89'4" 7/8 x 30'1"x9'6". 430 37/94 (Dockyard built); 108'11½", 90'10 1/4"x30'4"x9'7" (Contract built). Men: 160. Guns: 20 × 9 pounders on the gun deck.
Plans (NMM): Lines/ Lines & profile/ Profile. Seaford: 1769: Decks. 1770: Decks. 1771: Decks.

1756 April 13: Ordered to be built.
1756 June 5: Keel laid at Hugh Blaydes' Shipyard, Hull.
1757 March 8: Launched.
1774-1776: Stationed at Newport, RI, during the American revolutionary war under command of Captain James Wallace.
1779 September 19: Burnt and sunk to block the Savannah Bar in the defense of the entrance of Savannah, GA, to protect the city against a French invasion fleet.

In his The Sailing Navy List David Lyon is rather critical to the Rose replica. "A rather inaccurate 'replica' was constructed some years ago; on the grounds that the Rose's depradations had been the direct cause of the foundation of the US Navy; and is still in existence at the time of writing (1992), persistently and inaccurately referred to as "the frigate Rose".

Updated 1996-08-31 by Lars Bruzelius

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