HMS Warspite (1758)

History
UK
Name: HMS Warspite
Ordered: 14 November 1755
Builder: Thomas West, Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: November 1755
Launched: 8 April 1758
Commissioned: May 1758
Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard, November 1801
Notes: Harbour service from 1778
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Dublin-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1579​84⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 165 ft 9.5 in (50.533 m) (gundeck)
  • 134 ft 11 in (41.12 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 46 ft 11 in (14.30 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line (a new class of two-decker that formed the backbone of British fleets) of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 April 1758 at Deptford.[1]

Her first service in the Seven Years' War against France was as one of Admiral Edward Boscawen's 14 ships in the Mediterranean, and on 19 August 1759 she took part in the Battle of Lagos, where she captured the French Téméraire. Warspite also participated in the Battle of Quiberon Bay under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke.[2]

After the signing of the Treaty of Paris she was paid off on 5 May 1763, reappearing as a hospital ship during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).

She was employed on harbour service from 1778.[1] She was renamed Arundel in March 1800,[2] and was eventually broken up at Portsmouth Dockyard in November 1801.[3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 176.
  2. 1 2 Ballantyne 2001, p. 16
  3. ↑ Winfield 2007, p. 59

References

  • Ballantyne, Iain (2001). Warspite. Pen & Sword. ISBN 0850527791.
  • Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851772528.
  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.
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