HMS Tavistock (1747)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Tavistock.

HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

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

She was built by Hugh Blaydes at Blaydes Yard in Kingston upon Hull to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment. She was fitted out in Portsmouth and launched on 26 August 1747.^[1]

She had two commanders: Captain Justinian Nutt and Commodore Francis Holburne and had a crew of 350 men. She served in North America and the Caribbean (based at the Leeward Islands.^[2]

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

Notes

1. Winfield 2007, p.152
2. "British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Tavistock' (1747)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 22 October 2022.

References

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