HMS Woolwich (1749)

	Woolwich
History
Great Britain
Name:	Woolwich
Builder:	Moody Janverin and John Darley, Bucklers Hard, Hampshire
Launched:	7 March 1749
Fate:	Sold on 30 December 1762
General characteristics
Type:	Fourth rate
Tons burthen:	825 long tons (838.2 t)
Length:	133.5 ft (40.7 m)
Beam:	38 ft (11.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	44 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Woolwich was a 44-gun fourth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was built by Moody Janverin and John Darley at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England and launched 7 March 1749. She took part in the unsuccessful attack on Martinique in January 1759.[1]

She was sold on 30 December 1762.

Plan of the attack against Basseterre by a squadron of Royal Navy ships of war commanded by Commodore Moore on 22 January 1759 - also the encampments of the British. Shows Woolwich as the flagship

References

Clowes, William Laird (1996) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume III. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 201. ISBN 1-86176-012-4.

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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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[1] Clowes, William Laird (1996) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume III. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 201. ISBN 1-86176-012-4.