HMS Medway (1742)

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

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Medway
Ordered:	5 December 1740
Builder:	Bird, Rotherhithe
Launched:	26 May 1742
Fate:	Scuttled, 1748
General characteristics ^[1]
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.^[1]

Medway was scuttled in 1748.^[1]

Notes

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

1719 Establishment

100-gun first rates	Royal Sovereign

90-gun second rates	Prince George Union Namur Neptune Marlborough

80-gun third rates	Lancaster Princess Amelia Cornwall Norfolk Somerset Princess Caroline Russell

70-gun third rates	Edinburgh Northumberland Burford Captain Stirling Castle Berwick Lenox Kent Grafton Ipswich Buckingham Prince of Orange

60-gun fourth rates	Canterbury Plymouth Sunderland Windsor Deptford Swallow Tilbury Warwick Pembroke Dunkirk

50-gun fourth rates	Falkland Chatham Colchester Leopard Argyll Portland Assistance Romney Salisbury Oxford Falmouth Lichfield Greenwich Newcastle

100-gun first rates	Victory

90-gun second rates	Duke St George

80-gun third rates	Boyne Cumberland

70-gun third rates	Elizabeth Suffolk Essex Nassau Prince Frederick Bedford Royal Oak Stirling Castle Monmouth Revenge Captain Berwick

60-gun fourth rates	Weymouth Strafford Worcester Augusta Dragon Jersey Superb Lion Kingston Rupert Dreadnought Medway Princess Mary Exeter Nottingham

50-gun fourth rates	Gloucester St Albans Severn Guernsey Hampshire Leopard Nonsuch Sutherland Antelope Dartmouth Woolwich Preston

90-gun second rates	Ramillies Prince

80-gun third rates	Newark

74-gun third rates	Culloden

66-gun third rates	Devonshire Lancaster

64-gun third rates	Northumberland Edinburgh Hampton Court Kent Yarmouth

58-gun fourth rates	Princess Louisa Defiance Canterbury Sunderland Tilbury Eagle

50-gun fourth rates	Chester Harwich Winchester Maidstone Colchester Portland Falkland Salisbury Advice Gloucester Norwich Ruby Colchester Lichfield Panther

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