HMS Surprize (1746)

Career (Great Britain)
Name:	HMS Surprize
Ordered:	11 August 1744
Builder:	James Wyatt & John Major, Bucklers Hard
Laid down:	September 1745
Launched:	27 January 1745
Commissioned:	January 1746
Fate:	Sold to be broken up on 17 July 1770
General characteristics
Class and type:	sixth rate
Tons burthen:	508 long tons (516.2 t)
Length:	112 ft 6 in (34.3 m) (gundeck) 91 ft 10 in (28.0 m) (keel)
Beam:	32 ft 3 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 1 in (3.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	24 guns comprising 22 x 9-pounders (20 on upper deck, 2 on lower deck) and 2 x 3-pounders (on quarter deck).

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

HMS Surprize was a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was built to the 1741 revised specifications of the 1719 Establishment by James Wyatt and John Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire and launched on 27 January 1745.

She was broken up in 1770.

References

• Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.