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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Sunderland | Ship ordered=31 March 1721 | Ship builder=*Chatham Dockyard, | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=30 April 1724 | 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=Foundered, 1761 | Ship status= | Ship notes= }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=as built[1] | Ship class=1719 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line | Ship tons burthen= 951 (bm) | 144|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 39|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 16|ft|5|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*Gundeck: 24 × 24-pounder guns- Upper gundeck: 26 × 9-pounder guns
- QD: 8 × 6-pounder guns
- Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns
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- QD: 8 × 6-pounder guns
- Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns
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}} | HMS Sunderland was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 30 April 1724.[1]On 25 December 1742 Sunderland was ordered to be taken to pieces for rebuilding as a 58-gun fourth rate to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, from where she was relaunched on 4 April 1744.[2] Sunderland sailed from Portsmouth on 6 May 1758, bound for Madras. She sailed in convoy with the 74-gun {{HMS|Grafton|1750|6}} and the East Indiaman Pitt. On 1 January 1761, Sunderland was caught in a cyclone off Pondicherry, India, and foundered. She had been anchored and attempted to go out to sea, but was unable to and so reanchored. The storm overwhelmed her and she foundered six miles north of the anchorage; 376 of her crew died and 17 survived. The same storm claimed four other warships as well. {{HMS|Duc D'Aquitaine|1757|6}} foundered in much the same manner as Sunderland, and with a similar outcome. {{HMS|Newcastle|1750|6}}, {{HMS|Queenborough|1748|6}}, and {{HMS|Protector|1760|6}} were all driven onshore and wrecked.[3] Notes1. ^1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p170.
2. ^1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p172.
3. ^Hepper (1994), p.44-5.
References{{refbegin}}- {{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|authorlink=|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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