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HMS Berwick (1723)
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Berwick
Ordered: 31 March 1721
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 23 July 1723
Fate: Broken up, 1763
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: 1719 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,147 long tons (1,165.4 t)
Length: 151 ft (46 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 41 ft 6 in (12.65 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

70 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 6 pdrs

HMS Berwick was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 23 July 1723.[1]

Berwick was converted to a hulk in 1743, and eventually broken up in 1763.[1]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 169.

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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