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Ship name=HMS Orford
Ship ordered=31 August 1745
Ship builder =*John Hollond (1746)
Thomas Fellowes (1746-1749), Woolwich Dockyard
Ship laid down=24 February 1746
Ship launched=15 November 1749
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Ship fate=Sunk as a breakwater, Sheerness, 1783
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Ship class=1745 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
56|94}} (bm)
160|ft|2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
{{convert|131|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)
45|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
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19|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship
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Ship complement=520
Ship armament=*70 guns:
Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs
Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
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HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched in 1749.[1]Orford was placed on harbour service in 1777, and in 1783 she was sunk to form part of a breakwater.[1]
Notes
1. ^1 Winfield 2007, p.53
References
{{cite book | last = Winfield| first = Rif|title = British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates | publisher = Seaforth| location=Barnsley, United Kingdom|year = 2007|isbn=9781844157006}}