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Monday, March 07, 2005

The Algerine prize, Algier

The Algerine prize Algier was captured in 1671. She was only in service a couple of years before being wrecked ("cast away on the Black Tayle, June 1673"). Her characteristics, using Pepys' descriptions:
  • Length by the keel: 82ft-6in
  • Breadth by the beam: 28ft-0in
  • Depth in hold: 12ft-6in
  • Draught of water: 13ft-6in
  • Burden: 344 tons
  • Crew in peacetime: 110 men
  • Crew in wartime, abroad: 150 men
  • Crew in wartime, at home: 160 men
  • Guns in peacetime: 26 guns
  • Guns in wartime, abroad: 26 guns
  • Guns in wartime, at home: 32 guns
It's hard to know how she might have been armed, although we can guess: 18-demi-culverins (9dr), 10-sakers (5-1/pdr), and 4-minions (4pdr), for service at home in wartime. Sources:
  1. Adrian B. Caruana, The History of English Sea Ordnance 1523-1875, Vol.I, The Age of Evolution 1523-1715, 1994.

  2. J.R. Tanner, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Vol.I, 1903.

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