HMS Orford (1749)

	Orford
History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Orford
Ordered:	31 August 1745
Builder:	John Hollond (1746); Thomas Fellowes (1746-1749), Woolwich Dockyard;
Laid down:	24 February 1746
Launched:	15 November 1749
Commissioned:	March 1755
Fate:	Sunk as a breakwater, Sheerness, 1783
General characteristics
Class and type:	1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,414 56⁄94 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 2 in (48.8 m) (gundeck); 131 ft 4 in (40.0 m) (keel);
Beam:	45 ft 0 in (13.7 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 4 in (5.9 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	520
Armament:	70 guns:; Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs; Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs;

HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched in 1749.[1]

Orford was placed on harbour service in 1777, and in 1783 she was sunk to form part of a breakwater.[1]

Notes

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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