HMS Strafford (1735) - Misplaced Pages

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy For other ships with the same name, see HMS Strafford (1714).

History

Great Britain
Name	HMS Strafford
Ordered	4 September 1733
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Launched	24 July 1735
Fate	Sunk as a breakwater, 1756
General characteristics
Class and type	1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1067
Length	144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam	41 ft 5 in (12.6 m)
Depth of hold	16 ft 11 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	60 guns: Gundeck: 24 × 24-pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 9-pdrs Quarterdeck: 8 × 6-pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6-pdrs

HMS Strafford was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Chatham Dockyard, and was launched on 24 July 1735.

Engagements

HMS Strafford took part in the destruction of the fortress of San Lorenzo el Real Chagres (22-24 March 1740), in Panama, as part of a squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

At 3 pm on 22 March 1740, the English squadron, composed of the ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the frigate Diamond, the bomb vessels Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transports Goodly and Pompey, under Vernon's command, began to bombard the Spanish fortress. Given the overwhelming superiority of the English forces, Captain Don Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Cevallos surrendered the fort on 24 March, after resisting for two days.

She was at the Battle of Havana in 1748.

Strafford served until 1756, when she was sunk as part of a breakwater.

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

1719 Establishment

100-gun first-rates	Royal Sovereign
90-gun second-rates	Prince George Union Namur Neptune Marlborough
80-gun third-rates	Lancaster Princess Amelia Cornwall Norfolk Somerset Princess Caroline Russell
70-gun third-rates	Edinburgh Northumberland Burford Captain Stirling Castle Berwick Lenox Kent Grafton Ipswich Buckingham Prince of Orange
60-gun fourth-rates	Canterbury Plymouth Sunderland Windsor Deptford Swallow Tilbury Warwick Pembroke Dunkirk
50-gun fourth-rates	Falkland Chatham Colchester Leopard Argyll Portland Assistance Romney Salisbury Oxford Falmouth Lichfield Greenwich Newcastle

100-gun first-rates	Victory
90-gun second-rates	Duke St George
80-gun third-rates	Boyne Cumberland
70-gun third-rates	Elizabeth Suffolk Essex Nassau Prince Frederick Bedford Royal Oak Stirling Castle Monmouth Revenge Captain Berwick
60-gun fourth-rates	Weymouth Strafford Worcester Augusta Dragon Jersey Superb Lion Kingston Rupert Dreadnought Medway Princess Mary Exeter Nottingham
50-gun fourth-rates	Gloucester St Albans Severn Guernsey Hampshire Leopard Nonsuch Sutherland Antelope Dartmouth Woolwich Preston

90-gun second-rates	Ramillies Prince
80-gun third rates	Newark
74-gun third-rates	Culloden
66-gun third-rates	Devonshire Lancaster
64-gun third-rates	Northumberland Edinburgh Hampton Court Kent Yarmouth
58-gun fourth-rates	Princess Louisa Defiance Canterbury Sunderland Tilbury Eagle
50-gun fourth-rates	Chester Harwich Winchester Maidstone Colchester Portland Falkland Salisbury Advice Gloucester Norwich Ruby Colchester Lichfield Panther

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