Talk:HMS Amaranthe/@comment-26094049-20150209222249

I have found the scrap (literally) of a document from the Commission of Naval Inquiry regarding repairs to the Aramanthe. Documents mentioned are date 1804, and there is specifically an inquiry into the cost of repairs of similar ships, which says,

What would have been the Expence of Shipwrights Labour in building a Ship similar to the Amaranthe in His Majesty’s Yards? The is no Price fixed in the Scheme of Task for building a twenty- four Gun Ship; the Price for a twenty-eight Gun Ship is Two Pounds Seven Shillings and Sixpence, and for a twenty Gun Ship Two Pounds Seven Shillings per Ton, calculating the Price at Two Pounds Seven Shil- lings and Three Pence, the mean of those Prices, the Amaranthe being a twenty-four Gun Ship, and four hundred and ninety-eight Tons Burthen, the Expence would be One Thousand One Hundred and twenty-six Pounds Ten Shillings and Six pence.

Thus, the Aramanthe in questions was a 24-gun ship, not a 28-gun ship as stated. I would like to more about her.