HMS St Albans (1747)

HMS St Albans was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 23 December 1747.[1]

'St Albans' Floated out at Deptford, 1747 by John Cleveley the Elder
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS St Albans
Ordered: 6 August 1745
Builder: Thomas West, Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: September 1745
Launched: 23 December 1747
Commissioned: December 1747
In service:
  • 1747-1754
  • 1755-1760
Fate: Sold at Chatham Dockyard, 1765
General characteristics
Class and type: 1745 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,207 3294 (bm)
Length:
  • 149 ft 10 in (45.7 m) (gundeck)
  • 121 ft 4 in (37.0 m) (keel)
Beam: 43 ft 3 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 420
Armament:
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper deck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

St Albans served until 1765, when she was sold out of the Navy.[1]

Notes

  1. Winfield 2007, pp.129-130

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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