HMS Deptford (1687)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Deptford
Builder:	Thomas Shish, Woolwich Dockyard
Launched:	1687
Fate:	Sold, c.1725
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	644 long tons (654.3 t)
Length:	125 ft (38.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	33 ft 6 in (10.2 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft 11 in (4.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1700 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	46-54-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	669 long tons (679.7 t)
Length:	128 ft 4 in (39.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	34 ft 4 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft 5 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	46-54 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1719 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	1706 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	711 long tons (722.4 t)
Length:	130 ft (39.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	35 ft (10.7 m)
Depth of hold:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
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

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Deptford.

HMS Deptford was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1687.^[1]

She underwent her first rebuild at Woolwich in 1700 as a fourth rate of between 46 and 54 guns.^[2] Her second rebuild took place at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed as a 50-gun fourth rate to the 1706 Establishment and relaunched on 19 June 1719.^[3]

Deptford was sold out of the navy c.1725.^[3]