HMS Lichfield (1695)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

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

Lichfield, plan of the 1730 rebuild

History
Great Britain
Name| HMS Lichfield
Ordered| 16 November 1693
Builder| William Stignant, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched| 4 February 1695
Out of service| February 1715
Fate| Broken up, 1744
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type| 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen| 686 6⁄94
Length| 130 ft 3 in (39.7 m) (gundeck) 107 ft 7 in (32.8 m) (keel)
Beam| 34 ft 7.5 in (10.6 m)
Depth of hold| 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Sail plan| Full-rigged ship
Armament| 50 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1730 rebuild[2]
Class and type| 1719 Establishment 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen| 755 89⁄94 bm
Length| 134 ft 2 in (40.9 m) (gundeck) 109 ft 8 in (33.4 m) (keel)
Beam| 36 ft (11.0 m)
Depth of hold| 15 ft 2 in (4.6 m)
Sail plan| Full-rigged ship
Armament|

* 50 guns:
* Gundeck: 22 × 18 pdrs
* Upper gundeck: 22 × 9 pdrs
* Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs
* Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Lichfield was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of five such ships authorised on 16 November 1693 (three to be built in different Royal Dockyards and two to be built by commercial contract. The Lichfield was built by Master Shipwright William Stigant at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 4 February 1695. She was first commissioned in that year under Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton, for service in Home Waters.[1][note 1][3]

She was paid off in February 1715 at Plymouth, and ordered to be rebuilt on 5 December 1718, but the work did not commence until November 1727 (although the ship was taken to pieces for that purpose on 28 May 1720), and she underwent a rebuild according to the 1719 Establishment by Master Shipwright Peirson Lock at Plymouth Dockyard  for a cost of £11,342-3-2d, and she was re-launched on 25 March 1730. The Lichfield continued in service until 1744, when she was first nominally reduced to a 44-gun Fifth Rate (on 1 June), but then ordered to be taken to pieces instead ten days later (with a new ship ordered to be built in her stead at Harwich), which breaking-uo was completed in July.[2]

## Notes

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1. ^ J. J. Colledge's Ships of the Royal Navy and Brian Lavery's The Ship of the Line list a launch year of 1694, but later research by Rif Winfield and James Goss confirmed a date of 4 February 1695.

## Citations

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1. ^ a b Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603-1714, p.134.
2. ^ a b Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1714-1792, p.145.
3. ^ Rif Winfield, The 50-gun Ship

## References

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* 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.
* Winfield, Rif (1997), The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History. Chatham Publishing (1st edition); Mercury Books (2nd edition 2005). ISBN 1-845600-09-6.
* Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.
* Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
* 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.

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1719 Establishment ships

1719 Establishment

| 100-gun first-rates|

* Royal Sovereign

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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

1733 proposals

| 100-gun first-rates|

* Victory

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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

1741 proposals

| 90-gun second-rates|

* Ramillies
* Prince

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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

* Preceded by: 1706 Establishment
* Followed by: 1745 Establishment

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