HMS Northumberland (1750)
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| Name: | HMS Northumberland |
| Ordered: | 22 June 1744 |
| Builder: | Plymouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 14 August 1744 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1750 |
| Commissioned: | January 1753 |
| Renamed: | HMS Leviathan, 13 September 1777 |
| Fate: | Foundered, 27 February 1780 |
| Notes: | Storeship from 1777 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & type: | 1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1,414 long tons (1,436.7 t) |
| Length: | 160 ft (48.8 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 45 ft (13.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft 4 in (5.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 1 December 1750.[1]
During the Seven Years' War Northumberland was the flagship of Lord Alexander Collville from 1753 to 1762, and under the captaincy of William Adams until 1760 and Nathaniel Bateman from 1760 to 1762.[2] Future explorer James Cook served as ship's master from 1759 to 1761.[3]
Northumberland was later reclassified as a storeship and renamed Leviathan on 13 September 1777. The renamed Leviathan foundered on 27 February 1780 whilst sailing from Jamaica to Britain.[4]
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- Phillips, Michael. Northumberland (70) (1750). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
- Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1714-1792. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
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