- Notes
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Firm | Ship ordered=11 August 1756 | Ship builder=Perry, Blackwall Yard | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=15 January 1759 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold out of the service, 1791 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Harbour service from 1784
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Edgar|ship of the line|3}} | Ship tons burthen=1297 tons | 154|ft|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 43|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 18|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*60 guns:- Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
- Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs
| Ship notes=
}} | HMS Firm was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 January 1759 at Blackwall Yard, London.[1]Her carpenter from 1775 was James Wallis, who had previously served aboard {{HMS|Resolution|1771|6}} with Captain James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.[2] She was on harbour service from 1784, and was broken up in 1791.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p177.
2. ^Beaglehole 1959, p.874
References{{refbegin}}- {{cite book |title =The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery II, vol. I:The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 |editor=Beaglehole, J.C. |editor-link=John Cawte Beaglehole| year =1959 | publisher =Cambridge University Press | oclc=299995193 }}
- {{cite book |title =The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850| first =Brian | last =Lavery | year =2003 | publisher =Conway Maritime Press | isbn =0851772528}}
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