HMS Shrewsbury (1758)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Shrewsbury.

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Shrewsbury
Ordered:	31 October 1755
Builder:	Wells & Company, Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	14 January 1756
Launched:	23 February 1758
Commissioned:	March 1758
Fate:	Scuttled off Jamaica, 1783
General characteristics
Class and type:	Dublin-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1594 ³¹⁄₉₄ bm
Length:	166 ft 1 in (50.62 m) (gundeck) 135 ft 2.5 in (41.212 m) (keel)
Beam:	47 ft 1 in (14.35 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	550
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Shrewsbury was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 February 1758 at Deptford Dockyard.^[1]

In 1783, she was condemned and scuttled.^[1]^[2]

Notes

Michael Phillips. Shrewsbury (74) (1758). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 31 August 2008.
Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792. London: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.

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