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

HMS Romney was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 2 December 1708.[1]

On 11 June 1723 orders were issued for Romney to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Deptford according to the 1719 Establishment, and she was relaunched on 17 October 1726.[2]

Romney was sold out of the navy in 1757.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 168.
  2. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 170.

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.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Romney_(1708)
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