HMS Tavistock (1747)

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Tavistock
Ordered:	18 October 1745
Builder:	Blaydes, Hull
Launched:	26 August 1747
Fate:	Broken up, 1768
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	1745 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,061 long tons (1,078.0 t)
Length:	150 ft (45.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	42 ft 8 in (13.0 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Hull to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 26 August 1747.^[1]

Tavistock was converted to serve as a hulk in 1761, and was broken up in 1768.^[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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