French ship Rubis (1664)

The Rubis was a 60-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was designed and built by Laurent Hubac in Brest Dockyard between 1662 and 1665. She was captured by the English Navy in September 1666 at the Battle off Dungeness and added to the English Navy, with which she served for the next 19 years,

History
France
Name: Rubis
Builder: Laurent Hubac, at Brest Dockyard
Laid down: early 1662
Launched: November 1664
Completed: January 1665
Captured: September 1666 by HMS Royal James
Fate: Hulked in January 1686 at Portsmouth and taken to pieces
General characteristics
Class and type: 60-gun ship of the line
Tonnage: 800 tons
Length: 135 French feet[1]
Beam: 35 French feet
Draught: 17½ French feet
Depth of hold: 16 French feet
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 350, + 5/9 officers
Armament:
  • 60 guns comprising:
  • 6 x 24-pounders + 18 x 18-pounders on the lower deck
  • 22 x 12-pounders on the middle deck
  • 10 x 6-pounders on the upper deck (6 aft and 4 forward, with no midship guns at this level)
  • 4 x 4-pounders on the poop

References
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates).
  • The Sun King's Vessels (2015) - Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
  • Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
  1. The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.
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