HMS Orford (1749)

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Orford
Ordered:	31 August 1745
Builder:	John Hollond (1746) Thomas Fellowes (1746-1749), Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down:	24 February 1746
Launched:	15 November 1749
Commissioned:	March 1755
Fate:	Sunk as a breakwater, Sheerness, 1783
General characteristics
Class and type:	1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,414  56⁄94 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 2 in (48.8 m) (gundeck) 131 ft 4 in (40.0 m) (keel)
Beam:	45 ft 0 in (13.7 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 4 in (5.9 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	520
Armament:	70 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched in 1749.

Orford was placed on harbour service in 1777, and in 1783 she was sunk to form part of a breakwater.

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