HMS Pendennis (1679)
HMS Pendennis was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Kingdom of England built at Chatham in 1677/79. She was in the War of English Succession. She was in the Battle of Bantry Bay. She was wrecked on the Kentish Knock in October 1689.
She was the first vessel to bear the name Pendennis in the English and Royal Navy.
Construction and specifications
She was ordered in April 1677 to be built at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Phineas Pett. She was launched in 1679. Her dimensions were a gundeck of with a keel of for tonnage calculation with a breadth of and a depth of hold of. Her builder's measure tonnage was calculated as 1,051 tons. Her draught was.Her initial gun armament was in accordance with the 1677 Establishment with 72/60 guns consisting of twenty-six demi-cannons on the lower deck, twenty-four 12-pounder guns on the upper deck, ten sakers on the quarterdeck and four sakers on the foc's'le with four 3-pounder guns on the poop deck or roundhouse. By 1688 she would carry 70 guns as per the 1685 Establishment. Their initial manning establishment would be for a crew of 460/380/300 personnel.