Design and Statistics
Master shipbuilder John Dennis and nearly 200 shipwrights built the St Lawrence in under 10 months, although several sources credit master shipwright William Bell as the designer and builder. Unlike sea-going ships of the line, the Saint Lawrence was constructed without a quarterdeck, poop deck or forecastle. Nevertheless, the St Lawrence's 112 guns on three flush decks qualified her as a first rate, larger than Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar nine years earlier.
The St Lawrence measured 2,305 tons burthen. The gundeck's length was 191' 2" and the beam was 52' 6". The crew numbered 700. In way of armaments, she carried thirty-two 32-pounder carronades and two 68-pounder carronades on the upper deck, thirty-six 24-pounder long guns on the middle deck and twenty-eight 32-pounder long guns, four 24-pounder long guns and two 68-pounder carronades on the lower deck.
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