HMS Tavistock (1747)
HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Kingston upon Hull to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 26 August 1747.[1]
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Name: | HMS Tavistock |
Ordered: | 18 October 1745 |
Builder: | Hugh Blaydes, Kingston upon Hull |
Laid down: | November 1746 |
Launched: | 26 August 1747 |
Commissioned: | 25 December 1747 at builders |
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Fate: | Broken up at Woolwich Dockyard, 1768 |
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Class and type: | 1745 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1,061 6⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam: | 41 ft 2 in (12.5 m) |
Depth of hold: | 17 ft 8 in (5.4 m) |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Complement: | 350 |
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Tavistock was converted to serve as a hulk in 1758, and was broken up in 1768.[1]
Notes
- Winfield 2007, p.152
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References
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.
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