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HMS Berwick (1743)
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Berwick
Ordered: 5 December 1740
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 13 June 1743
Fate: Broken up, 1760
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: 1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,280 long tons (1,300.5 t)
Length: 151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 9 in (5.4 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 to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 13 June 1743.[1] It participated in the Battle of Toulon under the command of Sir Edward Hawke.

Berwick was broken up in 1760.[1]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 171.

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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