HBMS Strafford (1735)

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Strafford, 60 Guns

Details
Nationality	British
Previously	Strafford
Ordered	1733/05/22	B057
Laid Down	1733/09/15	B057
Launched	1735/07/24	B057
Shipyard	Chatham DY	B057
Master Shipbuilder	John Ward	B057
Rate	Fourth Rate
Type	Ship of the Line
Out Service	1756/08	B057
Fate	Sunk as Breakwater	B057

Dimensions
B057		Type	Metric
Length of Gundeck	144' 0"	Imperial Feet	43.89
Length of Keel	116' 6"	Imperial Feet	35.51
Breadth	41' 6"	Imperial Feet	12.65
Depth in Hold	16' 11"	Imperial Feet	5.16
Draught Forward	9' 11"	Imperial Feet	3.02
Draught Aft	15' 0"	Imperial Feet	4.57
Burthen	1,067⁷/₉₄	Tons BM

Armament
1735	B057	Broadside Weight = 435
Lower Gun Deck	24	British 24-Pounder
Upper Gun Deck	26	British 9-Pounder
Quarterdeck	8	British 6-Pounder
Forecastle	2	British 6-Pounder
1743	B057	Broadside Weight = 462
Lower Gun Deck	24	British 24-Pounder
Upper Gun Deck	24	British 12-Pounder
Quarterdeck	8	British 6-Pounder
Forecastle	2	British 6-Pounder

Crew Complement
Date	Men	Notes	Source
1735	400	Establishment	B057
1743	420	Revised Establishment	B057

Flag Officers
Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1740/02	1740/04	Admiral	Edward Vernon	B057
Commanders
Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1738/05	1739/05	Post Captain	Thomas Durrell	B057
1739/06	1742/08	Post Captain	Thomas Trevor	B057
1744	1746	Post Captain	Edward Legge	B057
1746	1747	Post Captain	Cornelius Mitchell	B057
1747	1748/03/08	Post Captain	James Renton	B057
1748/03/09	1749/07	Post Captain	David Brodie	B057

Service Record
Date	Notes	Source
1738/04/22	Completed at a build cost of £17,579.12.2d	B057
1738/05	Commissioned for service as a guardship at Plymouth	B057
1739/05	Fitted for foreign service at Portsmouth	B057
1739/07/23	Sailed with Vernon's fleet	B057
1739/11	Cruise off Spainish Main with Princess Louisa and Norwich between La Guaya and Puerto Cabello	DB034
1739/11/21	At Porto Bello	B057
1739/60	Recommissioned	B057
1740/03/23	At capture of Chagres	B057
1741/03	Present in operations against Cartagena	B057
1742/08	Sailed for home	B057
1743/06	Started a great repair and refit at Chatham	B057
1744/04	Completed repair and refit at a cost of £20,773.19.2d	B057
1744/04	Recommissioned	B057
1744/08	In Balchen's fleet until September	B057
1745	To Jamaica in Vice-Admiral Daver's squadron	B057
1745/11-12	Escort homeward convoy of 23 ships	DB035
1745/12/15	Encounter with French convoy where convoy escort squadrons engaged each other with Strafford having 5 killed and 8 wounded.	DB035
1746/6-7	Escort homeward bound convoy	DB035
1746/07-08	Squadron criuses off Cape Nicholas	DB035
1746	In the Leeward Islands	B057
1746/08	Encounter with Conflans	B057
1747/03/30	Cruising with squadron off Cape Francois	DB036
1747/12-1748/01	Cruising with squadron north of Hispanoila to intercept ships from a scattered French convoy.	DB036
1748/03/08	In attack on Port Louis	B057
1748/04/05	At Santiago	B057
1748/09/30	Cruise for 2 weeks between Cape Antonioand Tortuga Bank	DB036
1749/07	Paid off at Chatham	B057
1749/08/16	Surveyed	B057
1755/11/15	Reported as unfit for service	B057
1756/08/11	Order to be sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness	B057

Fleets
Fleet Title	Commander	Date From	Date To	Source
No Fleets Listed

Actions & Battles
Date		Source
1748/10/01	Battle of Havana

Notes on Ship
No Notes Entered

Sources
Id	Link or Description	Author
B057	British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714 - 1792	Rif Winfield
DB034	The Navy in the War of 1739-48 - volume 1	H.W. Richmond
DB035	The Navy in the War of 1739-48 - volume 2	H.W. Richmond
DB036	The Navy in the War of 1739-48 - volume 3	H.W. Richmond

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