HMS Granado (1695)

History
UK
Name	HMS Granado
Ordered	9 January 1695
Builder	Robert & John Castle, Deptford Dockyard
Launched	18 April 1695[1]
Commissioned	1695
In service	1695
Out of service	21 January 1729
Fate	Broken up, Woolwich Dockyard, 1718
General characteristics
Class and type	6-gun Serpent-class bomb vessel
Tons burthen	147 75⁄94 (bm)
Length	64 ft 5 in (19.6 m) (gundeck) 50 ft 6 in (15.4 m) (keel)
Beam	23 ft 5 in (7.1 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 0 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Sail plan	Ketch-rigged
Complement	30
Armament	4 × 2pdrs 2 × 121⁄2 in. mortars

HMS Granado was a Serpent-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports. She saw active service in the Nine Years' War as part of the fleets commanded by Admirals Berkeley and Rooke. She was subsequently assigned to cruising duties in the Mediterranean.^[2]

In 1711 Granado accompanied her sister ship Basilisk on the British expedition along North America's St Lawrence River. In 1714 she returned to Woolwich for repairs, where she was decommissioned and placed in ordinary. She was broken up at Woolwich Dockyard on 9 May 1718.^[2]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.

Further reading[]

• McLaughlan, Ian (2014). The Sloop of War, 1650-1763. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848321878.