HMS ''Northumberland'' was a 70-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
Rating
When the rating system was f ...
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactics in the Age of Sail, naval tactic known as the line of battl ...
of the
Royal Navy
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, built at
Plymouth Dockyard
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to the draught specified by the
1745 Establishment
The 1745 Establishment was the third and final formal establishment of dimensions for ships to be built for the Royal Navy. It completely superseded the previous 1719 Establishment, which had subsequently been modified in 1733 and again in 1741 ...
, and launched on 1 December 1750.
During the
Seven Years' War
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, ''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. Future explorer
James Cook
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 176 ...
served as
ship's master
The master, or sailing master, is a historical rank for a naval officer trained in and responsible for the navigation of a sailing vessel.
In the Royal Navy, the master was originally a warrant officer who ranked with, but after, the lieutenant ...
from 1759 to 1761.
[Robson 2009, p. 95]
''Northumberland'' was later classified as a storeship and was renamed ''Leviathan'' on 13 September 1777. She foundered on 27 February 1780 whilst sailing from
Jamaica
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to Britain.
[Ships of the Old Navy, ''Northumberland''.]
Notes
References
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* Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
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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. .
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