HMS Oxford (1674)

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Name: HMS Oxford
Ordered: 11 September 1672
Builder: Baylie, Bristol
Launched: June 1674
Fate: Broken up, 1758
General characteristics as built[1]
Class and type: 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 670.2 tons (680.9 tonnes)
Length: 109 ft (33 m) (keel)
Beam: 34 ft (10 m)
Depth of hold: 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 54 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1727 rebuild[2]
Class and type: 1719 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 767 tons (779.3 tonnes)
Length: 134 ft (41 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 36 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold: 15 ft 2 in (4.6 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 50 guns of various weights of shot
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Oxford.

HMS Oxford was a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Francis Baylie in Bristol and launched in June 1674.[1] Her guns comprised twenty-two 24-pounders on the lower deck, with twenty-two large sakers (8-pounders) on the upper deck and ten smaller sakers (5-pounders) on the quarter deck.

On 23 February 1684, Captain John Tyrrell was appointed to command the ship. From 1701 to 1702 the Oxford underwent a Great Repair amounting to rebuilding at Deptford.[1][3]

On 29 June 1723 she was ordered to be taken to pieces at Portsmouth Dockyard, and rebuilt to the lines of a 50-gun Fourth Rate of the 1719 Establishment. She relaunched on 10 July 1727.[2]

Towards the end of the Seven Years' War the ship was commanded by Mariot Arbuthnot.

The Oxford was broken up in 1758.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p161.
  2. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p170.
  3. ^ Ships of the Old Navy, Oxford (1674)

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