![]() The Jersey Prison Ship as moored at the Wallabout near Long Island, in the year 1782
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Name | HMS Jersey |
Builder | Plymouth Dockyard |
Launched | 14 June 1736 |
Fate | Abandoned and burned to prevent capture, 1783 |
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Class and type | 1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1,065 long tons (1,082.1 t) |
Length | 144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck) |
Beam | 41 ft 5 in (12.6 m) |
Depth of hold | 16 ft 11 in (5.2 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Jersey was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 14 June 1736.[1] She saw action in the War of Jenkins' Ear and the Seven Years' War, before being converted to a hospital ship in 1771. In 1780 she was converted again, this time to a prison ship, and was used by the British during the American Revolutionary War.