HMS Pembroke (1710)

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

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Pembroke
Builder:	Lock, Plymouth Dockyard
Launched:	18 May 1710
Fate:	Broken up, 1726
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	1706 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	703 bm
Length:	130 ft (39.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	35 ft (10.7 m)
Depth of hold:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 18 pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 9 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Pembroke was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 18 May 1710.^[1]

Pembroke served until 1726, when she was broken up.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p168.

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.

1706 Establishment ships

90-gun second rates	Neptune Vanguard Princess Sandwich Barfleur

80-gun third rates	Boyne Humber Russell Cumberland Devonshire Dorsetshire Shrewsbury Cambridge Torbay Newark

70-gun third rates	Resolution Captain Grafton Hampton Court Edgar Yarmouth Orford Royal Oak Expedition Monmouth Revenge Suffolk

60-gun fourth rates	Plymouth Lion Gloucester Rippon Montague Medway Kingston Nottingham

50-gun fourth rates	Salisbury Falmouth Ruby Chester Romney Pembroke Warwick Gloucester Ormonde Bonaventure Bristol Advice Assistance Strafford Worcester Rochester Dartmouth Panther Guernsey Salisbury Winchester St Albans Norwich Weymouth Deptford Swallow Tiger

Followed by: 1719 Establishment List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy List of frigates of the Royal Navy

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