HMS Northumberland (1750)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Northumberland.
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Northumberland
Ordered: 22 June 1744
Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down: 14 August 1744
Launched: 1 December 1750
Commissioned: January 1753
Renamed: HMS Leviathan, 13 September 1777
Fate: Foundered, 27 February 1780
Notes: Storeship from 1777
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: 1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,414 long tons (1,436.7 t)
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
Armament:
  • 70 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

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

During the Seven Years' War Northumberland was the flagship of Lord Alexander Collville from 1753 to 1762, and under the captaincy of William Adams until 1760 and Nathaniel Bateman from 1760 to 1762.[2] Future explorer James Cook served as ship's master from 1759 to 1761.[3]

Northumberland was later reclassified as a storeship and renamed Leviathan on 13 September 1777. The renamed Leviathan foundered on 27 February 1780 whilst sailing from Jamaica to Britain.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p173.
  2. Robson 2009, p.97
  3. Robson 2009, p. 95
  4. Ships of the Old Navy, Northumberland.

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