1677 Construction Programme

Class overview
Name	1677 Construction Programme
Builders	Portsmouth Dockyard; Deptford Dockyard; Harwich Dockyard; Chatham Dockyard; Woolwich Dockyard; Francis Bayley, Bristol; Sir Henry Johnson, Blackwall;
Operators	Kingdom of England; Kingdom of Great Britain after 1707;
Preceded by	Royal Oak
Succeeded by	1691 Programme Group
Built	1677–1680
In service	1679–1765
Completed	20
Lost	13
Retired	7
General characteristics 1677 Specifications
Type	70/62-gun third-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,012 65⁄94 tons (bm)
Length	150 ft 0 in (45.72 m) gundeck; 121 ft 0 in (36.88 m) keel for tonnage;
Beam	39 ft 8 in (12.09 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 0 in (5.18 m)
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Complement	1677 – 460/380/300 personnel
Armament	1677 Establishment 70/62 guns; 26 x demi-cannons (54 cwt – 9.5 ft (LD); 26 x 12-pdr guns 32 cwt – 9 ft (UD); 10 x sakers 16 cwt – 7 ft (QD); 4 x sakers 16 cwt – 7 ft (Fc); 4 x 3-pdr guns 5 cwt – 5 ft (RH);

The 1677 Construction Programme was a group of Royal Navy ships of the line approved on 5 March 1677. This program authorised the construction of thirty new warships for the Royal Navy and was a compromise between the 40 ship programme proposed by Samuel Pepys in 1675 and the Parliamentary counter proposal of twenty ships in 1676. This programme included the construction of one first rate, nine second rates, and twenty third rate naval vessels.

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