HMS Grafton (1750)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Grafton.

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Grafton
Ordered:	6 August 1745
Builder:	Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched:	29 March 1750
Fate:	Sold, 1767
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1414 (bm)
Length:	160 ft (48.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 4 in (5.9 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	70 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 29 March 1750.^[1]

Grafton served until 1767, when she was sold out of the navy.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p173.

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

1745 Establishment ships

1745 Establishment

100-gun first rates	Royal George Britannia

80-gun third rates	Princess Amelia

70-gun third rates	Vanguard Somerset Orford Grafton Swiftsure Northumberland Buckingham

60-gun fourth rates	St Albans Anson Tiger Weymouth York Medway

50-gun fourth rates	Greenwich Severn Tavistock Assistance Newcastle Falmouth Preston

1750 amendments

90-gun second rates	Namur Union Neptune

80-gun third rates	Cambridge

70-gun third rates	Chichester

60-gun fourth rates	Dunkirk Montagu

1752 amendments

60-gun fourth rates	Pembroke Rippon

50-gun fourth rates	Chatham

1754 amendments

70-gun third rates	Burford Dorsetshire Boyne

Preceded by: 1719 Establishment
Followed by: Sandwich class, Valiant class, Dublin class, Edgar class, Essex class

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