HMS Marlborough (1767)

Career (Great Britain)
Name:	HMS Marlborough
Ordered:	4 December 1760
Builder:	Deptford dockyard
Laid down:	3 June 1763
Launched:	26 August 1767
Commissioned:	January 1771
Honours and awards:	Participated in: Battle of Cape St Vincent Battle of the Saintes
Fate:	Wrecked near Belleisle, 4 November 1800
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ramillies-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1642 tons (1668.3 tonnes)
Length:	168 ft 8.5 in (51.422 m) (gun deck)
Beam:	46 ft 11 in (14.30 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Marlborough.

HMS Marlborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 August 1767 at Deptford. She was one of the Ramillies class built to update the Navy and replace ships lost following the Seven Years' War. She was first commissioned in 1771 under Captain Richard Bickerton as a guard ship for the Medway. She served through two wars before her loss in 1800 when she struck a ledge of rocks off the Quiberon Peninsula; while she was pulled off the rocks, she was so seriously damaged that she foundered after all her complement were saved.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Grocott, Terence, Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras, Caxton Editions, Great Britain: 2002. ISBN 1-84067-164-5.
• Lyon, David (1993) The Sailing Navy List Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.