HMS Warwick (1733)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Warwick |
| Ordered: | 14 March 1727 |
| Builder: | P. Lock, Plymouth |
| Laid down: | 1 April 1730 |
| Launched: | 25 October 1733 |
| Completed: | 24 August 1734 |
| Captured: | by the French Navy, 11 March 1756 |
 France
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| Name: | Warwick |
| Acquired: | by capture, 11 March 1756 |
| Captured: | by the Royal Navy, 24 January 1761 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1761 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 1719 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 951 long tons (966.3 t) |
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| Beam: | 39 ft (11.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 16 ft 5 in (5.0 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 400 |
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HMS Warwick was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth by P. Lock. The keel was laid down on 1 April 1730, and the ship was launched on 25 October 1733, and completed on 24 August 1734.
Warwick was commissioned under the command of Captain Edmund Brooke. In 1735 she was with the fleet of Admiral John Norris in the Tagus. In October 1736 she returned to England and was paid off.
She was recommissioned in June 1739 under the command of Captain John Toller, and served with Admiral Nicholas Haddock's fleet in the Mediterranean. Command had passed to Captain Temple West by 1743, under whom she was present at the Battle of Toulon on 11 February 1744.
She was recommissioned in January 1746 under the command of Captain Robert Erskine. On 14 July 1747, Warwick was off the Azores in company with the 40-gun Lark, Captain John Crookshanks, when she encountered the Spanish 74 Glorioso, sailing from the Spanish Main with 3 million dollars in treasure. Warwick attacked but, left unsupported, was beaten to a standstill, and the Glorioso escaped. Crookshanks, who was the senior officer, was cashiered.
In 1748, under the command of Captain Thomas Innes, Warwick was part of the squadron under Sir Charles Knowles in the Caribbean, and took part on the attacks on Fort Saint Louis de Sud and Santiago de Cuba in March and April, and in the Battle of Havana on 12 October 1748.
She was recommissioned in March 1755 under the command of Captain Molyneux Shuldham and sailed for the Leeward Islands. On 21 December 1755 Warwick was detached by Commodore Thomas Frankland to cruise in the neighbourhood of Martinique. At daybreak on 11 March 1756, three French ships were sighted, and Warwick attempted to escape. The ships were the 74-gun Prudent, Captain d'Aubigny, and frigates Atalante and Zéphyr. In the heavy seas Warwick was unable to bring her lower deck guns into action, and also her crew had been depleted by illness, with less than 300 from her crew of 400 fit. Atalante (34), Captain Du Chaffault, came up on her quarter, and kept up a steady fire, cutting up her rigging. The Prudent then also drew in close and opened fire. Shuldham ordered his guns to fire on the larger ship, firing at Atalante with small-arms only. After half an hour, in a hopeless position, Warwick surrendered. Shuldham was held as a prisoner of war for two years.
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