HMS Lichfield (1695)

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:	682 long tons (692.9 t)
Length:	130 ft 3 in (39.7 m) (gundeck)
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:	756 long tons (768.1 t)
Length:	134 ft (40.8 m) (gundeck)
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, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 4 February 1695.^{[note 1][3]}

She underwent a rebuild according to the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth, and was relaunched on 25 March 1730. Lichfield continued in service until 1744, when she was broken up.^[2]

Notes

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 indicates a date of 4 February 1695.

Citations

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p164.
2. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p170.
3. Winfield, The 50-gun Ship

References

• 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.
• Rif Winfield, The 50-gun Ship, Chatham Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1-86176-025-6
• 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. OCLC 67375475.