HMS Greenwich (1747)

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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Greenwich
Ordered: 3 October 1745
Builder: Moody Janvrin, Lepe, Hampshire
Launched: 19 March 1747
Captured: 18 March 1757, by the French
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Name: Greenwich
Acquired: 18 March 1757
Fate: Wrecked near Plougastel on 14 January 1758
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 1745 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,053 long tons (1,069.9 t)
Length: 144 ft (43.9 m)
Beam: 41.5 ft (12.6 m)[2]
Depth of hold: 17 ft (5.2 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 Greenwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Moody Janvrin at Lepe on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 19 March 1747.[1]

She was captured off Saint-Domingue by Éveillé and Diadème on 18 March 1757.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p173.
  2. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy.

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