HMS Pendennis (1679)

HMS Pendennis was a 48-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched in 1679.

She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard, and her dimensions are not consistently recorded but are estimated to have been around 115 feet in length. Fourth-rate ships of this period typically carried a complement of between 200 and 250 men.

The Pendennis saw active service in various naval engagements during her career, which spanned a volatile period of Anglo-Dutch naval warfare and other conflicts. Details of her specific actions are somewhat scarce given the limited record-keeping of the era, but she would have participated in fleet actions and patrols, protecting trade routes and engaging enemy warships.

Her ultimate fate is not precisely documented in readily available naval records. However, ships of this era were often either lost in battle, wrecked due to storms or navigational errors, or deemed unseaworthy and broken up (dismantled) as they aged. The Pendennis likely met one of these ends sometime in the late 17th or early 18th century. Without further information, the precise year and manner of her decommissioning or loss remain unclear.