HMS Salisbury (1698)

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Career (England)

Name:	HMS Salisbury
Ordered:	1695
Builder:	Richard and James Herring, Baileys Hard
Launched:	18 April 1698
Captured:	By the French, 10 May 1703
Career (France)
Acquired:	10 May 1703
Fate:	Captured by the British on 15 March 1708
Career (Great Britain)
Name:	HMS Salisbury Prize
Acquired:	15 March 1708
Renamed:	HMS Preston on 2 January 1716
Fate:	Hulked in September 1748; Broken up in November 1749
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	681 long tons (691.9 t)
Length:	134 ft 4.5 in (41.0 m)
Beam:	34 ft 2 in (10.4 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1742 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	1733 proposals 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	853 long tons (866.7 t)
Length:	134 ft (40.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	38 ft 6 in (11.7 m)
Depth of hold:	15 ft 9 in (4.8 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 Salisbury.

HMS Salisbury was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Richard and James Herring at Baileys Hard (near Bucklers Hard) on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England and launched on 18 April 1698.

She was captured by the French ship Adroit on 10 April 1703. She was subsequently recaptured on 15 March 1708 and renamed Salisbury Prize, and later renamed Preston on 2 January 1716.

On 8 May 1739 Preston was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Plymouth according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and was relaunched on 18 September 1742.^[2] She was then hulked at Trincomalee in September 1748 and broken up there in November 1749.