HMS ''Surprize'' was a 24-gun

sixth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works an ...

ship of the

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. She was built to the 1741 revised specifications of the

1719 Establishment The 1719 Establishment was a set of mandatory requirements governing the construction of all Royal Navy warships capable of carrying more than 20 naval long guns. It was designed to bring economies of scale through uniform vessel design, and e ...

by James Wyatt and John Major at

Bucklers Hard Buckler's Hard is a hamlet in the civil parish of Beaulieu, in the New Forest district, in the county of Hampshire, England, on the banks of the Beaulieu River. With its two rows of Georgian cottages running down to the river, Buckler's Har ...

on the

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in Hampshire and launched on 27 January 1745. She was broken up in 1770.

References

*Winfield, Rif, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. . * Ships of the line of the Royal Navy 1746 ships Ships built on the Beaulieu River {{UK-navy-stub