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

HMS Plymouth was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Devonport Dockyard (Devonport then known as Plymouth-Dock) to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 25 May 1708.[1]

Orders were issued on 26 May 1720 directing Plymouth to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Chatham, from where she was relaunched on 2 August 1722. Plymouth remained in service until she was broken up in 1764.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 168.
  2. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 170.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Plymouth_(1708)
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