HMS Northumberland (1750)

HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 1 December 1750.[1]

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

Northumberland
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Northumberland
Ordered: 22 June 1744
Builder:
  • Thomas Fellowes (1744–1746)
  • Benjamin Slade (1746–1750)
  • Thomas Slade (1750)
Laid down: 14 August 1744
Launched: 1 December 1750
Commissioned: January 1753
Renamed: HMS Leviathan, 13 September 1777
Fate: Foundered, 27 February 1780
Notes: Storeship from 1777
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1414​56⁄94(bm)
Length:
  • 160 ft (48.8 m) (gundeck)
  • 160 ft (48.8 m) (keel)
Beam: 45 ft (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

During the Seven Years' War Northumberland was the flagship of Lord Alexander Collville from 1753 to 1762, and under the captaincy of William Adams until 1760 and Nathaniel Bateman from 1760 to 1762.[2] Future explorer James Cook served as ship's master from 1759 to 1761.[3]

Northumberland was later classified as a storeship and was renamed Leviathan on 13 September 1777. She foundered on 27 February 1780 whilst sailing from Jamaica to Britain.[4]

Notes
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p173.
  2. Robson 2009, p.97
  3. Robson 2009, p. 95
  4. Ships of the Old Navy, Northumberland.

References
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • 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.
  • Robson, John (2009). Captain Cook's War and Peace. University of New South Wales Press. p. 95. ISBN 9781742231099.
  • Phillips, Michael. Northumberland (70) (1750). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
  • Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1714–1792. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
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