Ramillies-class ship of the line

The Ramillies-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.

Design
The draught for the Ramillies class was very similar to that of the Bellona-class ship of the line and subsequent Arrogant-class ship of the line, with the only real differences to be found in the shape of the underwater hull. There were two distinct sub-groups; four ships were built in the Royal Dockyards to the original design, approved on 25 April 1760 – although the name-ship Ramillies had originally been ordered as a Bellona-class unit. Slade subsequently amended his design for the ships which were to be built by commercial contractors – this modified design, with slightly amended dimensions, being approved on 13 January 1761.

First group
Dockyard-built ships:


 * HMS Ramillies (1763)
 * Builder: Chatham Dockyard
 * Ordered: 1 December 1759
 * Laid down: 25 August 1760
 * Launched: 25 April 1763
 * Completed: November 1763
 * Fate: Abandoned and burned off Newfoundland, 21 September 1782.


 * HMS Monarch (1765)
 * Builder: Deptford Dockyard
 * Ordered: 22 November 1760
 * Laid down: 2 June 1761
 * Launched: 20 July 1765
 * Completed: 24 September 1765
 * Fate: Broken up at Chatham, March 1813


 * HMS Magnificent (1766)
 * Builder: Deptford Dockyard
 * Ordered: 16 December 1761
 * Laid down: 15 April 1762
 * Launched: 20 September 1767
 * Completed: September 1778
 * Fate: Wrecked off Brest, 25 March 1804.


 * HMS Marlborough (1767)
 * Builder: Deptford Dockyard
 * Ordered: 4 December 1762
 * Laid down: 3 June 1763
 * Launched: 26 August 1767
 * Completed: 1 December 1767
 * Fate: Wrecked off Belle Île, 4 November 1800

Second (modified) group
Contract-built ships:


 * HMS Terrible (1762)
 * Builder: John Barnard, Harwich
 * Ordered: 1 January 1761
 * Laid down: February 1761
 * Launched: 4 September 1762
 * Completed: 18 December 1762
 * Fate: Burned following the Battle of the Chesapeake, 11 September 1781


 * HMS Russell (1764)
 * Builder: Thomas West, Deptford
 * Ordered: 1 January 1761
 * Laid down: June 1761
 * Launched: 10 November 1764
 * Completed: 6 January 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard
 * Fate: Sold out of the service in the East Indies, 1811


 * HMS Invincible (1765)
 * Builder: John and William Wells, Deptford
 * Ordered: 12 October 1761
 * Laid down: December 1761
 * Launched: 9 March 1765
 * Completed: February 1777 at Chatham Dockyard.
 * Fate: Wrecked off Yarmouth, 16 March 1801


 * HMS Robust (1764)
 * Builder: John Barnard, Harwich
 * Ordered: 16 December 1761
 * Laid down: February 1762
 * Launched: 25 October 1764
 * Completed: 10 December 1764
 * Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth, January 1817


 * HMS Prince of Wales (1765)
 * Builder: Henry Bird and Roger Fisher, Milford Haven
 * Ordered: 16 December 1762
 * Laid down: March 1762
 * Launched: 4 June 1765
 * Completed: 22 December 1770 at Plymouth Dockyard
 * Fate: Broken up at Plymouth, August 1783