The Ramillies-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.
Design The draught for the Ramillies class was very similar to that of the and subsequent , with the only real differences to be found in the shape of the underwater hull. There were two distinct sub-groups; four ships were built in the Royal Dockyards to the original design, approved on 25 April 1760 – although the name-ship Ramillies had originally been ordered as a Bellona-class unit. Slade subsequently amended his design for the ships which were to be built by commercial contractors – this modified design, with slightly amended dimensions, being approved on 13 January 1761.Winfield, pp. 66, 68
Ships First group Dockyard-built ships:
Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 1 December 1759 Laid down: 25 August 1760 Launched: 25 April 1763 Completed: November 1763 Fate: Abandoned and burned off Newfoundland, 21 September 1782.
Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 22 November 1760 Laid down: 2 June 1761 Launched: 20 July 1765 Completed: 24 September 1765 Fate: Broken up at Chatham, March 1813
Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 16 December 1761 Laid down: 15 April 1762 Launched: 20 September 1767 Completed: September 1778 Fate: Wrecked off Brest, 25 March 1804.
Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 4 December 1762 Laid down: 3 June 1763 Launched: 26 August 1767 Completed: 1 December 1767 Fate: Wrecked off Belle Île, 4 November 1800
Second (modified) group Contract-built ships:
Builder: John Barnard, Harwich Ordered: 1 January 1761 Laid down: February 1761 Launched: 4 September 1762 Completed: 18 December 1762 Fate: Burned following the Battle of the Chesapeake, 11 September 1781
Builder: Thomas West, Deptford Ordered: 1 January 1761 Laid down: June 1761 Launched: 10 November 1764 Completed: 6 January 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard Fate: Sold out of the service in the East Indies, 1811
Builder: John and William Wells, Deptford Ordered: 12 October 1761 Laid down: December 1761 Launched: 9 March 1765 Completed: February 1777 at Chatham Dockyard. Fate: Wrecked off Yarmouth, 16 March 1801
Builder: John Barnard, Harwich Ordered: 16 December 1761 Laid down: February 1762 Launched: 25 October 1764 Completed: 10 December 1764 Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth, January 1817
Builder: Henry Bird and Roger Fisher, Milford Haven Ordered: 16 December 1762 Laid down: March 1762 Launched: 4 June 1765 Completed: 22 December 1770 at Plymouth Dockyard Fate: Broken up at Plymouth, August 1783
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