French ship Rubis (1664)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Rubis.

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 & type	60-gun ship of the line
Tonnage	800 tons
Length	135 French feet[a]
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 × 24-pounders + 18 × 18-pounders on the lower deck 22 × 12-pounders on the middle deck 10 × 6-pounders on the upper deck (6 aft and 4 forward, with no midship guns at this level) 4 × 4-pounders on the poop

Notes

1. The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.

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.