HMS Ramillies (1785)
HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe.
French Revolutionary Wars
On 4 April 1796, Ramilies ran down and sank the hired armed lugger Spider while maneuvering.
In 1801, Ramilies was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen, and so did not take an active part in the battle.
Expedition to occupy the Danish West Indies (1807)
In 1807 Ramillies was in the West Indies as part of a squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, who sailed in HMS Belleisle. The squadron, which included HMS Prince George, HMS Northumberland, HMS Canada and HMS Cerberus, captured the Telemaco, Carvalho and Master on 17 April 1807.
Following the concern in Britain that neutral Denmark was entering an alliance with Napoleon, in December Ramillies participated in Cochrane's expedition that captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless.
HMS Ramillies
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ramillies after the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706):
HMS Ramillies (1763)
HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1763 at Chatham Dockyard.
In 1782 she was part of a fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves off Newfoundland. Ramillies was badly damaged in a violent storm, and was finally abandoned and burned on 21 September 1782.
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HMS Ramillies (1892)
HMS Ramillies was a pre-dreadnought battleship of Royal Navy and part of the seven ship Royal Sovereign class. She was 380 feet (120 m) long with a beam of 75 feet (23 m) and a draught of 27' 6". She produced 13,000 horsepower (9,700 kW) and could make 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h). The class was faster and better armoured than their predecessors and carried a potent secondary armament but these features inevitably increased their weight: Ramillies displaced 14,150 tons whereas previous battleships seldom topping 10,000 tonnes. Her main armament consisted of four 13.5-inch (343-mm) guns in two barbettes with a secondary set of ten 6-inch (152-mm) guns. She cost £900,000.
Ramillies was launched in 1892 and commissioned in 1893, serving in the Mediterranean Fleet as flagship. In 1902 she was replaced in that role by HMS Venerable and returned to England for a refit,commissioned into the Reserve in 1905. She suffered damage in manouevres in 1906, and was recommissioned in to the Special Service Division of the Home Fleet in 1907, becoming the Parent Ship of the 4th Division of the Home Fleet in 1910. She was relieved of that role a year later, reduced to material reserve at Devonport in August 1911 and laid up at Motherbank for disposal in July 1913. She was sold for scrapping on 7 October 1913. Along with other pre-Dreadnought battleships, she had been outclassed by the new designs.
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