St Albans-class ship of the line

Class overview
Name	St Albans
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Essex class
Succeeded by	Exeter class
In service	12 September 1764 – 1814
Completed	3
Lost	1
General characteristics
Type	Ship of the line
Length	159 ft (48 m) (gundeck); 131 ft 7+3⁄4 in (40.126 m) (keel);
Beam	44 ft 4 in (13.51 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Armament	64 guns:; Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs; Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs;

The St Albans-class ships of the line were a class of three 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.

Design

Slade based the St Albans draught on that of his earlier 74-gun Bellona class.^[1]

Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard, London

Ordered: 13 January 1761

Launched: 12 September 1764

Fate: Broken up, 1814

Builder: Wells and Stanton, Rotherhithe

Ordered: 13 January 1761

Launched: 24 October 1763

Fate: Burned, 1777

Builder: Clevely, Gravesend

Ordered: 2 August 1780

Launched: 9 March 1784

Fate: Broken up, 1801

Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.