HMS Grafton (1750)

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History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.


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