Ship of the line of the Royal Navy
Lichfield , plan of the 1730 rebuild
History
Great Britain
Name HMS Lichfield
Ordered 16 November 1693
Builder William Stignant, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched 4 February 1695
Out of service February 1715
Fate Broken up, 1744
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen 682
Length 130 ft 3 in (39.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam 34 ft 7.5 in (10.6 m)
Depth of hold 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament 50 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1730 rebuild[2]
Class and type 1719 Establishment 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen 756
Length 134 ft (40.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam 36 ft (11.0 m)
Depth of hold 15 ft 2 in (4.6 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
50 guns:
Gundeck: 22 × 18 pdrs
Upper gundeck: 22 × 9 pdrs
Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs
Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs
HMS Lichfield was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 4 February 1695.[note 1] [3]
She underwent a rebuild according to the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth , and was relaunched on 25 March 1730. Lichfield continued in service until 1744, when she was broken up.[2]
Notes
^ J. J. Colledge 's Ships of the Royal Navy and Brian Lavery's The Ship of the Line list a launch year of 1694, but later research by Rif Winfield and James Goss indicates a date of 4 February 1695.
Citations
^ Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p164.
^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p170.
^ Winfield, The 50-gun Ship
References
100-gun first-rates 90-gun second-rates 80-gun third-rates 70-gun third-rates 60-gun fourth-rates 50-gun fourth-rates
90-gun second-rates 80-gun third rates 74-gun third-rates 66-gun third-rates 64-gun third-rates 58-gun fourth-rates 50-gun fourth-rates