HMS Burford (1679)

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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Burford
Builder: Thomas Shish, Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 1679
Fate: Wrecked, 1719
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,174 long tons (1,192.8 t)
Length: 152 ft 4 in (46.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft 10.5 in (12.5 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 3 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1699 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,113 long tons (1,130.9 t)
Length: 152 ft 3 in (46.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 40 ft 8.75 in (12.4 m)
Depth of hold: 16 ft 4 in (5.0 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Burford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1679.[1]

She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1699, remaining as a 70-gun third rate.[2]

Burford was wrecked on February 14, 1719 after running aground at an unspecified location on the Italian coast.[2]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 162.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 166.

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.
  • Phillips Michael; Colledge & Warlow, Ships of the Royal Navy