HMS Dreadnought (1742)

History
Dreadnought
Great Britain
Name	HMS Dreadnought
Ordered	5 December 1740
Builder	Wells, Deptford
Launched	23 June 1742
Fate	Sold 1784
History
Great Britain
Name	Dreadnought
Namesake	Previous name retained
Fate	Foundered 1803
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type	1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1093 (bm)
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-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 9-pounder guns QD: 8 × 6-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Dreadnought was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and was launched on 23 June 1742.^[1] Dreadnought served until 1784, when she was sold out of the service.^[1]

Retaining her name, Dreadnought operated as a merchant ship after her naval service until she foundered in the English Channel, 3 leagues — 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) — south of North Foreland, Kent, England, in 1803.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 171.
^ Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbott: David and Charles. p. 69. ISBN 0-7153-7202-5.

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

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1803
Shipwrecks	6 Jan: Whydah 11 Jan: Hindostan January (unknown date): Active, Anna Augusta 16 Feb: Rachael 19 Feb: Fishburn February (unknown date): King George 17 Apr: Margaret 31 May: HMS Resistance 2 Jul: HMS Minerve 21 Jul: HMS Seine 29 Jul: Caledonia 30 Jul: HMS Calypso July (unknown date): Perseverance 17 Aug: Cato, Mutine, HMS Porpoise August (unknown date): Houghton 29 Oct: General Baird October (unknown date): Betsy, Cicero 10 Nov: HMS Garland 17 Nov: HMS Circe 5 Dec: HMS Avenger 10 Dec: HMS Shannon 25 Dec: HMS Suffisante 27 Dec: Earl of Wycombe Unknown date: Dreadnought, L'Enterprise, HMS Victorious, Windsor Castle
Other incidents	2 Dec: Rachael 6 Dec: Rachael
1802 1804

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