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]

History
Great Britain
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
In service:
  • 1747-1752
  • 1758-1760
Fate: Broken up at Woolwich Dockyard, 1768
General characteristics
Class and type: 1745 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,061 694 (bm)
Length:
  • 144 ft 0 in (43.9 m) (gundeck)
  • 117 ft 8.5 in (35.9 m) (keel)
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
Armament:
  • 50 guns:
  • Lower deck: 22 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper deck: 22 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

Tavistock was converted to serve as a hulk in 1758, and was broken up in 1768.[1]

Notes

  1. Winfield 2007, p.152

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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