HMS St George (1622)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS St George.

HMS St George at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
History
England
Name	HMS St George
Ordered	February 1622
Builder	William Burrell, Deptford Dockyard
Launched	1622
Renamed	HMS George, 1650 HMS St. George, 1660
Honours and awards	1625 Attack on Cadiz 14.9.1650 Capture of the Brazil Fleet 2.6.1653 Battle of the Gabbard 31.7.1653 Battle of Scheveningen 4.4.1655 Battle of Porto Farina 20.4.1657 Battle of Santa Cruz 3.6.1665 Battle of Lowestoft 1.6.1666 Four Days Battle 25.7.1666 St James Day Battle 28.5.1672 Battle of Solebay 28.5.1673 First Battle of Schooneveld 4.6.1673 Second Battle of Schooneveld 11.8.1673 Battle of Texel
Fate	Sunk as a blockship at Sheerness, 1697
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	42-gun Great ship
Tons burthen	895 (Builder's Old Measurement)
Length	110 ft (34 m) (keel)
Beam	37 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold	16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship

The George at the Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653

HMS St George, sometimes written as HMS George,^[1] was a 42-gun great ship of the English Royal Navy, built by Andrew Burrell at Deptford and launched in 1622.^[1] By 1660 her armament had been increased to 56 guns.^[1] It finally increased to 60 guns. St George was hulked in 1687,^[1] and sunk as a blockship at Sheerness in 1697.

Saint George was the flagship of Robert Blake during the Anglo-Spanish War, and where, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, he had lost his life on his journey back to England.^[2][3]

Citations

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 158.
2. Dixon, 1852, pp. 360-363
3. Powell, 1972, pp. 308

Three decks lists William Burrell as the builder/designer

Bibliography

• Dixon, William Hepworth (1852). Robert Blake, admiral and general at sea. London: Chapman and Hall.
• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
• Powell, John Rowland (1972). Robert Blake; general-at-sea. New York: Crane, Russak. ISBN 978-0-00211-7265.
• Three Decks <https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=57>