HMS Tavistock (1747)

HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Kingston upon Hull to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 26 August 1747.[1]

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Tavistock
Ordered:	18 October 1745
Builder:	Hugh Blaydes, Kingston upon Hull
Laid down:	November 1746
Launched:	26 August 1747
Commissioned:	25 December 1747 at builders
In service:	1747-1752 1758-1760
Fate:	Broken up at Woolwich Dockyard, 1768
General characteristics
Class and type:	1745 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,061 ​^6⁄94 (bm)
Length:	144 ft 0 in (43.9 m) (gundeck) 117 ft 8.5 in (35.9 m) (keel)
Beam:	41 ft 2 in (12.5 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 8 in (5.4 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	350
Armament:	50 guns: Lower deck: 22 × 24 pdrs Upper deck: 22 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

Tavistock was converted to serve as a hulk in 1758, and was broken up in 1768.[1]

Notes

1. Winfield 2007, p.152

References

• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.