HMS Bristol (1711)

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

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Bristol
Builder:	Lock, Plymouth Dockyard
Launched:	8 May 1711
Fate:	Broken up, 1768
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class & type:	1706 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	703 bm
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
General characteristics after 1746 rebuild^[2]
Class & type:	50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,021 bm
Length:	146 ft (44.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	40 ft (12.2 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 10 in (5.1 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Bristol was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 8 May 1711.^[1]

On 22 November 1742 Bristol was ordered to be dismantled for rebuilding. Unlike the vast majority of ships of the line rebuilt during the Establishment era, Bristol was not reconstructed according to the establishment in effect at the time (in this case, the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment). She shared her dimensions with later, newly built Rochester. Bristol was relaunched on 9 July 1746.^[2]

Bristol was broken up in 1768.^[2]

Notes

1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 168.
1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 173.

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.

1706 Establishment ships

90-gun second rates	Neptune Vanguard Princess Sandwich Barfleur

80-gun third rates	Boyne Humber Russell Cumberland Devonshire Dorsetshire Shrewsbury Cambridge Torbay Newark

70-gun third rates	Resolution Captain Grafton Hampton Court Edgar Yarmouth Orford Royal Oak Expedition Monmouth Revenge Suffolk

60-gun fourth rates	Plymouth Lion Gloucester Rippon Montague Medway Kingston Nottingham

50-gun fourth rates	Salisbury Falmouth Ruby Chester Romney Pembroke Warwick Gloucester Ormonde Bonaventure Bristol Advice Assistance Strafford Worcester Rochester Dartmouth Panther Guernsey Salisbury Winchester St Albans Norwich Weymouth Deptford Swallow Tiger

Followed by: 1719 Establishment List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy List of frigates of the Royal Navy

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