Kingdom of Great Britain
Gov't:
Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Leader:
King George II
Heir/Secondary Authority:
George III
Dynasty/Political Party:
Tories, and whigs
Treaties/Alliances:
Portugal
Company's:
East India Company
Hudson's Bay Company
South Sea Company
Army: 51,500 soldiers/officers
72,000 cavalry troops/officers
10,000 Artillery troops/officers
8,211Garrison troops/officers
2,000 Field Artillery
Key: Battalion (500), Company (100)
Garrison Forces stationed:
Gibraltar-1,402
Malta-1,239
West Coast of Africa-246
Mauritius-1,015
Nova Scotia-1,018
Newfoundland-138
Canada (inland)-1,204
Bermuda-306
Jamaica-1,418
Bahamas-225
HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY1st Regiment of Life Guards
2nd Regiment of Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards
CAVALRY OF THE LINE:
HEAVY CAVALRY
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
3rd (Prince of Wales') Dragoon Guards
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales') Dragoon Guards
6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers)
7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons
2nd (The Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons
3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons
4th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Dragoons
5th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons
6th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Dragoons
LIGHT CAVALRY
7th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
9th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
10th (Prince of Wales' Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
12th (Prince of Wales') Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
13th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
14th (The Duchess of York's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)
19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
20th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
21st Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
22nd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
24th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
25th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
26th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
27th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
28th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
29th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
SUPPORT ARMS
1st Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
2nd Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
3rd Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
4th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
5th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
6th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
7th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
8th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
9th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
10th Battalion / Royal Regiment of Artillery - 10 companies
INFANTRY
FOOT GUARDS
1st Regiment of Foot Guards - 3 battalions
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards - 2 battalions
3rd Regiment of Foot Guards - 2 battalions
LINE INFANTRY
1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot - 4 battalions
2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs) - 2 battalions
4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
5th (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot – 1 battalion
14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot - 3 battalions
15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot - 3 battalions
28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
33rd (1st Yorkshire, West Riding) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
35th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
41st Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) - 2 battalions
43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot – 1 battalion
47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 battalions
49th (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot - 1 battalion
Navy:17,000 British naval sailors/officers
40,000 merchant sailors/officers
1st rates: 5
2nd rates:22
3rd rates:69
4th rates:81
5th rates:41
6th rates:62
⦁ Second rates of 90 guns
⦁ 23⦁ Sandwich 90 (May 1679) – rebuilt 1709–1715; ⦁ lazarette 1752, broken up 1770
⦁ 24⦁ Duchess 90 (May 1679) – renamed Princess Anne 31 December 1701, renamed Windsor Castle 17 March 1702, renamed Blenheim 18 December 1706; rebuilt 1708–09; broken up 1763.
Ossory 90 (24 August 1682) – rebuilt 1708–11 and renamed Princess 2 January 1716, then Princess Royal 26 July 1728
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns
Expedition 70 (1679) – renamed Prince Frederick 1715, sold 1784
Essex 70 (1679) – broken up 1736 for rebuild
Suffolk 70 (1680) – broken up by 1765
The "Twenty-Seven Ships" programme of 1691
This programme was approved by Parliament on 10 October 1690. While nominally it comprised seventeen third rates of 80 guns and ten fourth rates of 60 guns, funds for three third rates of 70 guns were provided at virtually the same date as the Programme, which should thus strictly speaking refer to Thirty Ships.
⦁ Two-decker third rates of 80 guns
Boyne 80 (1692) – broken up by 1763
⦁ Three-decker third rates of 80 guns.
These four were originally intended to be two-deckers, like the other thirteen, but were completed as three-deckers.
Ranelagh 80 (1697) – renamed Princess Caroline 1728
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns
Ipswich 70 (1693) – broken up 1727 to rebuild
Yarmouth 70 (1695) – broken up 1707 and rebuilt 1707–09; hulked 1740, sold or broken up 1769
⦁ Other third ratesBedford 70 (1698) – rebuilt 1741
Second rates of 90 guns, ordered 1695Namur 90 (1697) – rebuilt 1729
Triumph 90 (1698) – renamed Prince 1714, rebuilt 1750
Fourth rates of 50 gunsThe split between 123 ft groups and 130 ft groups is not in Lavery, but in the previous version of this list on Wikipedia. However the split is supported by data in The 50-Gun Ship and in British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714.
⦁ Ordered 1690–92 (123 ft group)
Centurion (1691) – broken up 1728 for rebuild
⦁ Ordered 1693 (130 ft group) Severn (1695) – broken up 1734 for rebuild
⦁ Ordered 1695 (130 ft group) Salisbury 50 (1698) – captured by France 1703, recaptured 1708, renamed Salisbury Prize, renamed Preston 1716, broken up 1739 for rebuild
Jersey 50 (1698) – hulked 1731, sunk 1763
⦁ 90⦁ Tilbury 50 (1699) – broken up 1726 for rebuild
First rates of 100 guns, rebuilt 1697–1719Royal Sovereign 100 (1701) – broken up 1768
Royal Anne 100 (1703) – ex-St Andrew, broken up 1757
Royal George 100 (1715) – ex-Queen, renamed Royal Anne 1756, broken up 1767
⦁ 103⦁ Royal William 100 (1719) – reduced to 84 guns, broken up 1813
New ships, pre-Establishment, 1697–1706⦁ Third rates of 70 guns
Nassau 70 (1707) – rebuilt 1740
Elizabeth 70 (1706) – rebuilt 1737
⦁ Fourth rates of 60 guns Mary 60 (1704) – rebuilt 1742 and renamed Princess Mary
⦁ Fourth rates of 50 guns, 130 ft group Antelope 50 (1703) – rebuilt 1741
Newcastle 50 (1704) – rebuilt 1732
Reserve 50 (1704) – renamed Sutherland 1716, hospital ship 1741, broken up 1754
Saint Albans 50 (1706) – rebuilt 1737
Rebuilds, pre-Establishment, 1697–1706⦁ Second rates of 90 guns St George 90 (1701) – ex-Charles, rebuilt 1740
Royal Katherine 90 (1702) – renamed Ramillies 1706, rebuilt 1749
Union 90 (1704) – ex-Albemarle, rebuilt 1726
⦁ Third rates of 80 guns
Cornwall 80 (1706) – rebuilt 1726
⦁ Third rates of 66 guns
Rupert 66 (1703) – rebuild of ⦁ 1666 Rupert to different design, reduced to fourth rate 1716, broken up 1736 (then rebuilt again from 1737 to 1740)
⦁ Fourth rates of 60 guns
Dunkirk 60 (1704) – rebuilt 1734
⦁ Fourth rates of 46–54 guns
Greenwich (1699) – rebuilt 1730
Southampton (1700) – hulked 1728, broken up 1771
⦁ Second rates of 90 guns
The seven Second rates of this Establishment were ordered as 96-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, but the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment reduced this armament to 90 guns.
Marlborough 90 (1706) – ex-St Michael, rebuilt 1732
Blenheim 90 (1709) – ex-Duchess, broken up 1763
Neptune 90 (1710) – rebuilt 1730
Vanguard 90 (1710) – rebuilt 1739 and renamed Duke
Princess 90 (1711) – ex-Ossory, renamed Princess Royal 1728, broken up 1773
Sandwich 90 (1712) – broken up 1770
Barfleur 90 (1716) – hulked 1764, broken up 1783
⦁ Third rates of 80 guns
⦁ The ten three-decker third rates of this Establishment were ordered as 80-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, while the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment retained this total (while making slight adjustments).
Boyne 80 (1708) – rebuilt 1739
Humber 80 (1708) – rebuilt 1726 and renamed Princess Amelia
Russell 80 (1709) – rebuilt 1735
Cumberland 80 (1710) – broken up 1731 and rebuilt 1739
Devonshire 80 (1710) – hulk 1740, sold 1760
⦁ 154⦁ Newark 80 (1717) – rebuilt 1747
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns Grafton 70 (1709) – rebuilt 1725
Hampton Court 70 (1709) – rebuilt 1744
Orford 70 (1713) – rebuilt 1727
Royal Oak 70 (1713) – rebuilt 1741
Expedition 70 (1714) – renamed Prince Frederick 1715, rebuilt 1740
Monmouth 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1742
Revenge 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1742
Suffolk 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1739
⦁ Fourth rates of 60 guns Lion 60 (1709) – rebuilt 1738
Rippon 60 (1712) – rebuilt 1735
Kingston 60 (1719) – rebuilt 1740
⦁ 168⦁ Nottingham 60 (1719) – rebuilt 1745
⦁ Fourth rates of 50 guns
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The first nineteen of the following vessels were ordered between 1706 and 1714 as 54-gun vessels, armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of 12-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, the 54-gun ship was superseded by a 50-gun ship with a main battery of 18-pounder guns. The last ten ships listed below were ordered from 1715 onwards which were established and armed to the 1716 Guns Establishment, and the existing 54-gun ships were re-armed to this standard as each came into a dockyard for refitting and opportunity allowed.Falmouth 50 (1708) – rebuilt 1729
Romney 50 (1708) – rebuilt 1726
Bristol 50 (1711) – broken up 1742, rebuilt 1746
Ormonde 50 (1711) – renamed Dragon 1715, broken up 1733 for rebuild
Assistance 50 (1713) – rebuilt 1725
Gloucester 50 (1711) – rebuilt 1737
Panther 50 (1716) – hulked 1743, sold 1768
Dartmouth 50 (1716) – rebuilt 1741
Salisbury 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1726
Winchester 50 (1717) – hulked 1744, broken up 1781
Guernsey 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1740
⦁ 182⦁ Norwich 50 (1718) – renamed Enterprise and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate 1744, broken up 1771
⦁ Fifth rates of 40–44 guns
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These small two-decker warships were not ships of the line as they were not powerful enough to stand in the line of battle. They were informally described as ⦁ frigates and are included in the article on that topic.
Captured ships, War of Spanish Succession1719 Establishment⦁ First rates of 100 guns
Royal Sovereign 100 (1728) – broken up 1768
⦁ Second rates of 90 guns
Prince George 90 (1723) – Burnt by accident 1768
Neptune 90 (1730) – renamed ⦁ Torbay and reduced to 74 guns 1750, sold 1784
Marlborough 90 (1732) – reduced to 68 guns 1752, foundered 1762
⦁ Third rates of 80 guns
Lancaster 80 (1722) – rebuilt 1749
Princess Amelia 80 (1723) – ex-Humber, broken up 1752
Cornwall 80 (1726) – broken up 1761
Norfolk 80 (1728) – renamed Princess Amelia 1755, broken up 1757
Princess Caroline 80 (1731) – ex-Ranelagh, broken up 1764
Russell 80 (1735) – sunk as a breakwater 1762
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns
Edinburgh 70 (1721) – ex-Warspite, rebuilt 1744
Northumberland 70 (1721) – rebuilt 1743
Burford 70 (1722) – broken up 1752
Captain 70 (1722) – hulked 1739, broken up 1762
Stirling Castle 70 (1723) – hulked 1739, broken up 1771
Berwick 70 (1723) – hulked 1743, broken up 1763
Lenox 70 (1723) – sunk as a breakwater 1756
Ipswich 70 (1730) – hulked 1757, broken up 1764
⦁ 201⦁ Prince of Orange 70 (1734) – reduced to 60 guns 1748, sheer hulk 1772, sold 1810
⦁ Fourth rates of 60 guns
Canterbury 60 (1722) – rebuilt 1744
Plymouth 60 (1722) – broken up 1764
Sunderland 60 (1724) – rebuilt 1744
Windsor 60 (1729) – rebuilt 1745
Deptford 60 (1732) – reduced to 50 guns 1752, sold 1767
Warwick 60 (1733) – captured 1756
⦁ Fourth rates of 50 guns
Falkland 50 (1720) – rebuilt 1744
Oxford 50 (1727) – broken up 1758
⦁ Fifth rates of 40–44 guns
These small two-decker warships were not ships of the line as they were not powerful enough to stand in the line of battle. They were informally described as frigates and are included in the article on that topic.
Non-Establishment 60-gun shipsCenturion 60 (1732) – Used by ⦁ Anson in his world voyage, reduced to 50 guns 1744, broken up 1769
Rippon 60 (1735) – broken up 1751
1733 Proposals⦁ Second rates of 90 guns
Duke 90 (1739) – broken up 1769
St George 90 (1740) – broken up 1774
⦁ Third rates of 80 guns
Boyne 80 (1739) – broken up 1763
Cumberland 80 (1739) – reduced to 66 guns in 1747, foundered 1760
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns
Elizabeth 70 (1737) – broken up 1766
Suffolk 70 (1739) – broken up 1765
Essex 70 (1740) – wrecked 1759
Nassau 70 (1740) – sold 1770
Prince Frederick 70 (1740) – sold 1784
Bedford 70 (1741) – hulked 1767, sold 1787
Royal Oak 70 (1741) – hulked 1757, broken up 1763
Stirling Castle 70 (1742) – lost 1762
Monmouth 70 (1742) – broken up 1767
Revenge 70 (1742) – sold 1787
Captain 70 (1743) – reduced to 64 guns 1760, storeship 1777, broken up 1783
Berwick 70 (1743) – broken up 1760
⦁ Fourth rates of 60 guns
Strafford 60 (1735) – scuttled as a breakwater 1756
Worcester 60 (1735) – broken up 1765
Augusta 60 (1736) – broken up 1765
Dragon 60 (1736) – scuttled as breakwater 1757
Jersey 60 (1736) – hospital ship1771, abandoned 1783
Superb 60 (1736) – broken up 1757
Lion 60 (1738) – sold 1765
Kingston 60 (1740) – sold 1762
Rupert 60 (1740) – Rebuild of ⦁ 1713 Rupert to a different design, broken up 1769
⦁ 237⦁ Dreadnought 60 (1742) – sold 1784
Princess Mary 60 (1742) – Sold 1762
Exeter 60 (1744) – broken up 1763
Nottingham 60 (1745) – scuttled as breakwater 1773
⦁ Fourth rates of 50 guns
Guernsey 50 (1740) – hulk 1769, sold 1786
Hampshire 50 (1741) – broken up 1766
Leopard 50 (1741) – broken up 1761
Nonsuch 50 (1741) – broken up 1766
Sutherland 50 (1741) – sold 1770
Antelope 50 (1742) – sold 1783
⦁ Second rates of 90 guns Ramillies 90 (1749) – wrecked 1760
Prince 90 (1750) – broken up 1773
⦁ Third rates of 80 guns
Newark 80 (1747) – broken up 1787
Lancaster 80 (1749) – completed as a ship of 66 guns. broken up 1773.
Devonshire 80 (1745) – cut down and reduced to a 74-gun ship 1747, then immediately reduced further to a 66-gun ship. Broken up 1772 ⦁ [1]
Culloden 80 (1747) – re-ordered and completed as a ship of 74 guns. sold 1770.
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns (the ships were all re-classed as 64-gun ships)
Northumberland 66 (1743) – captured 1774
Edinburgh 66 (1744) – broken up 1771
Hampton Court 66 (1744) – broken up 1774
⦁ 257⦁ Kent 64 (1746) – hulked 1760
⦁ modified from the 1745 Establishment (lengthened by 6 ft)
Yarmouth 64 (1745) – reduced to 60 guns in 1781, broken up 1811
⦁ Fourth rates of 58 guns (classed as 58s, those ships actually had 62 gun ports)
Princess Louisa 58 (1744) – broken up 1766
Defiance 58 (1744) – sold 1766
Canterbury 58 (1744) – harbour service 1761, broken up 1770
Sunderland 58 (1745) – foundered 1761
Tilbury 58 (1745) – foundered 1757
Eagle 58 (1745) – sold 1767
⦁ Non-Establishment 60 gun ship
Windsor 58 (1745) – sold 1777
⦁ Fourth rates of 50 guns
Chester 50 (1743) – sold 1767
Harwich 50 (1743) – wrecked 1760
Winchester 50 (1744) – sold 1769
Maidstone 50 (1744) – wrecked 1747
Portland 50 (1744) – sold 1763
Falkland 50 (1744) – given to victualling depot 1768
Salisbury 50 (1745) – condemned 1761
Advice 50 (1745) – broken up 1756
Gloucester 50 (1745) – broken up 1764
Norwich 50 (1745) – sold 1768
Ruby 50 (1745) – broken up 1765
Colchester 50 (1746) – broken up 1773
Lichfield 50 (1746) – wrecked 1758
⦁ 279⦁ Panther 50 (1746) – broken up 1756
⦁ Bristol class – Non-Establishment 50-gun ships (lengthened by 6 feet)
Bristol (1746) – broken up 1768
⦁ 281⦁ Rochester (1749) – sold 1770
1745 Establishment
⦁ Third rates of 70 guns
Vanguard 70 (1748) – sold 1774
Somerset 70 (1748) – wrecked 1778
Orford 70 (1749) – harbour service 1777, sunk as a breakwater 1783
Grafton 70 (1750) – sold 1767
Swiftsure 70 (1750) – sold 1773
Northumberland 70 (1750) – renamed Leviathan storeship 1777, foundered 1779
⦁ Fourth rates of 60 guns
St Albans 60 (1747) – sold 1765
Anson 60 (1747) – sold 1773
⦁ 290⦁ Tiger 60 (1747) – hulked 1760, sold 1765
Weymouth 60 (1752) – broken up 1772
⦁ Fourth rates of 50 guns
Assistance 50 (1747) – sold 1773.
Greenwich 50 (1747) – captured by France 1757.
Tavistock 50 (1747) – hulked 1761, broken up 1768.
Falmouth 50 (1752) – abandoned aground 1765.
Newcastle 50 (1750) – wrecked 1761.
⦁ 295⦁ Severn 50 (1747) – sold 1759.
Captured ships, War of 1739–48
Princess 70 (1740) – ex-Spanish Princessa captured 8 April 1740, hulk 1760, sold 1784
Vigilant 58 (1745) – ex-French Le Vigilant captured 19 May 1745, sold 1759
Portland's Prize 50 (1746) – ex-French L'Auguste, captured 9 February 1746, sold 1749
⦁ 300⦁ Mars 64 (1746) – ex-French Le Mars captured 11 October 1746, wrecked 1755
Intrepid 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Sérieux ⦁ captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre,⦁ [4] broken up 1765
Invincible 74 (1747) – ex-French L'Invincible ⦁ captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, wrecked 1758
Isis 50 (1747) – ex-French Le Diamant 56 ⦁ captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1766
Monarch 74 (1747) – ex-French Le Monarque, ⦁ captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1760
Terrible 74 (1747) – ex-French Le Terrible, ⦁ captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, broken up 1763
Fougueux 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Fougueux ⦁ captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, broken up 1759
Trident 64 (1747) – ex-French Trident ⦁ captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1763
Magnanime 74 (1748) – ex-French Le Magnanime captured 31 January 1748, broken up 1775
Other captured ships⦁ Rubis – ex-French Rubis 52, ⦁ captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, was added to the Royal Navy as a sixth rate of 26 guns.
Jason 50 – ex-French Jason, ⦁ captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, was added to the Royal Navy as a fifth rate of 44 guns.
1706 Establishment group - 42-gun fifth rates 1707-1715.
The Navy Board ordered sixteen of these vessels between 1705 and 1711 as 42-gun vessels. The remaining pair - Looe and Diamond - were not ordered but rather the Navy Board purchased them on the stocks from the shipbuilder who had commenced building them "on spec". All the vessels were armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of 9-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, a 40-gun ship with a main battery of 12-pounder guns superseded the 42-gun ship. Hence, the last six of the ships listed below were completed as 40-gun ships.
HMS Launceston 1711 – broken up 1726 to rebuild
HMS Faversham 1712 – broken up 1730 to rebuild
Frigates from 1719 to 1750
For ships before the 1745 Establishment, the term 'class' is inappropriate as individual design was left up to the master shipwright in each Royal dockyard. For other vessels, the Surveyor of the Navy produced a common design for ships which were to be built under a commercial contract rather than in a Royal Dockyard. Consequently, the term 'group' is used as more applicable for ships built to similar specifications laid down in the Establishments but to varying designs. However, from 1739 almost all Fifth and Sixth Rates were built under contract and were thus to a common class.
Fifth-rate frigates 1719 to 17501719 Establishment 40-gun fifth rates 1721-1733
All thirteen were rebuilds of earlier 40-gun ships (the Torrington and Princess Louisa were renamed when rebuilt from the former Charles Galley and Launceston respectively), although the Anglesea and Adventure were authorised as 'Great Repairs' rather than as rebuildings.
⦁ 1733 Establishment 40-gun (later 44-gun) fifth rates 1736-1741
Eltham (1736) – broken up 1763
Dover (1741) – sold 1763
Lynn (1741) – sold 1763
Gosport (1741) – broken up 1768
Sapphire (1741) – ⦁ razéed to 32-gun frigate 1756-58, sold 1784
Hastings (1741) – broken up 1763
Liverpool (1741) – sold 1763
Kinsale (1741) – sold 1763
Adventure (1741) – ⦁ razéed to 32-gun frigate 1756-58, sold 1770
Diamond (1741) – sold 1756
Launceston (1741) – sold 1784
⦁ 1741 Establishment 44-gun ships 1742-1747
Anglesea (1742) - taken by the French 1745
Torrington (1743) - sold 1763
Hector (1743) - sold 1762
Roebuck (1743) - lent as a privateer 1763, sold 1764
Lark (1744) - sold 1757
Pearl (1744) - sold 1759
Mary Galley (1744) - used as breakwater 1764
Ludlow Castle (1744) - ⦁ razéed to 24-gun frigate 1762, broken up 1771
Fowey (1744) - wrecked 1748
Looe (1745) - hulked 1750
Chesterfield (1745) - wrecked 1762
Poole (1745) - broken up 1765
Southsea Castle (1745) - converted to storeship 1760, lost 1762
Prince Edward (1745) - sold 1766
Anglesea (1746) - used as breakwater 1764
Thetis (1747) - converted to hospital ship 1757, sold 1767
⦁ 1745 Establishment 44-gun ships 1747-1749
Prince Henry (1747) - broken up 1764
Assurance (1747) - wrecked 1753
Expedition (1747) - broken up 1764
Penzance (1747) - sold 1766
Crown (1747) - converted to Storeship 1757, sold 1770
Rainbow (1747) - fitted with an experimental all-carronade armament 1782, hulked 1784
Humber (1748) - wrecked 1762
Woolwich (1749) - sold 1762
⦁ modified 1745 Establishment (lengthened by 6 ft)
America (1749) - renamed Boston 1756, sold 1757
⦁ Sixth-rate frigates 1719 to 17501719 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1720-1728: HMS Deal Castle 1727
HMS Fox 1727
HMS Gibraltar 1727
HMS Bideford 1727
HMS Seahorse 1727
HMS Squirrel 1727
HMS Aldborough 1727
HMS Flamborough 1727
HMS Experiment 1727
HMS Rye 1727
HMS Phoenix 1728
⦁ Modified ⦁ 1719 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1732:
HMS Sheerness 1732
HMS Dolphin 1732
1733 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1734-1742:
HMS Tartar 1734
HMS Kennington 1736
HMS Fox 1740
HMS Winchelsea 1740
HMS Lyme 1740
HMS Rye 1740
HMS Experiment 1740
HMS Lively 1740
HMS Port Mahon 1740
HMS Scarborough 1740
HMS Success 1740
HMS Rose 1740
HMS Bideford 1740
HMS Bridgewater 1740
HMS Seaford 1741
HMS Solebay 1742
HMS Wager 28-gun sixth rate purchased 1739
⦁ Modified ⦁ 1733 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1741
HMS Greyhound 1741
HMS Blandford 1741
1741 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1742-1746:
HMS Lowestoffe 1742
HMS Aldborough 1743
HMS Alderney 1743
HMS Phoenix 1743
HMS Sheerness 1743
HMS Wager 1744
HMS Shreham 1744
HMS Bridgewater 1744
HMS Glasgow 1745
HMS Triton 1745
HMS Mercury 1745
HMS Surprise 1746
HMS Siren 1745
HMS Fox 1746
HMS Rye 1746
⦁ Modified ⦁ 1741 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1746.
HMS Centaur 1746
HMS Deal Castle 1746
HMS Nightingale 22-gun sixth rate 1746
HMS Garland 20-gun sixth rate 1748
1745 Establishment 24-gun sixth rates 1746-1751, armed with 2 9-pounder canons on the lower deck and 20 on the upper deck, 2 3-pounders on the Quarterdeck
HMS Arundel 1746 - sold 1765
HMS Queenborough 1747 - driven ashore on the Indian coast near ⦁ Pondicherry by a hurricane on New Year's Day 1761
HMS Fowey 1749 - sunk by shore batteries at ⦁ Yorktown on 10.10.1781
HMS Hind 1749 - sold 1784
HMS Sphinx 1748 - sold 1770
⦁ Modified ⦁ 1745 Establishment 24-gun sixth rate 1748, armed as the ships above
HMS Boston 1748 - broken up 1752
HMS Seahorse 24-gun sixth rate, designed by Jacob Acworth, 1748, armed with 2 9-pounder canons on the lower deck and 22 on the upper deck, 2 3-pounders on the Quarterdeck - sold 1784
HMS Mermaid 24-gun sixth rate, designed by Joseph Allin, 1749, armed with 20 9-pounder canons on the upper deck and 4 3-pounders on the quarterdeck - wrecked off the Coast of ⦁ South Carolina on 06.01.1760
Two nominally 24-gun ships - the Lyme and Unicorn - were built in 1747-1749 with twenty-four 9-pounders on the upper deck but also carried four smaller guns on the quarter deck. There were no more guns on the lower deck that was lowered to the waterline; the pair were designated as 24-gun ships (disregarding the smaller guns) until 1756, when they were re-classed as 28-gun frigates. However other 24-gun and 20-gun ships continued to be built, with either twenty-two or twenty 9-pounder guns on the upper deck.
Lyme class 28-gun sixth rates 1748
HMS Lyme 1748 - wrecked in the Baltic off the Swedish Coast on 18.10.1760
HMS Unicorn 1748 - broken up 1771
