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HMS Medway (1742)

History
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Name: HMS Medway
Ordered: 5 December 1740
Builder: Bird, Rotherhithe
Launched: 26 May 1742
Fate: Scuttled, 1748
General characteristics
Class and type: 1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,080 long tons (1,097.3 t)
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 Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Rotherhithe, and launched on 26 May 1742.

Medway was scuttled in 1748.



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