Talk:HMS Yarmouth (1745)

Yarmouth establishment
Yarmouth was ordered 25.5.1741 as a 70 gun ship. Ref: British warships in the age of sail 1714-1792 (P90) She was re-ordered to an enlarged design in June 1742 with a extra 6 feet of length added but was classified as a 64 gun ship under the 1743 establishment while under construction with no change in design.

As pure speculation; this might have "creative" bookkeeping on the part of the Admiralty to get more heavier ships than had been authorised by Parliament based on the fact that "The Line of Battle: the sailing warship 1650-1840" mentions that the King in Council became responsible for enforcing the size of draughts and dimensions in 1745. In 1745 the "64's" were restored to 70 guns.

When was Yarmouth completed? Funnily enough, 1745.

I'm going to see if I can find any supporting evidence that Yarmouth ever actually carried 64 guns, because all of my reference material points towards the 1741 70 gun ships being, well. 70 gun ships.

Freyr829 (talk) 15:07, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Lavery p 172 says 26-32p, 26-18p, 10-9p & 2-9p for 64 guns (says reduced to 60 guns in 1781)

Also gives her launch date as 28-12-1748, not 1745.??

SpookyMulder —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.0.106.130 (talk) 01:52, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

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