HMS St Albans (1747)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS St Albans.

'St Albans' Floated out at Deptford, 1747 by John Cleveley the Elder
History
Great Britain
NameHMS St Albans
Ordered6 August 1745
BuilderThomas West, Deptford Dockyard
Laid downSeptember 1745
Launched23 December 1747
CommissionedDecember 1747
In service
  • 1747-1754
  • 1755-1760
FateSold at Chatham Dockyard, 1765
General characteristics
Class & type1745 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1,207 32⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 149 ft 10 in (45.7 m) (gundeck)
  • 121 ft 4 in (37.0 m) (keel)
Beam43 ft 3 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement420
Armament
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper deck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS St Albans was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 23 December 1747. She saw service against France in the Seven Years' War. On July 1758 she was off the coast of Toulon when she captured a French merchant vessel, the 36-gun Loire carrying a thousand tons of food, wine and flour for France's colony in Quebec. The captured ship and her 300-man crew were conveyed under guard to the British port of Gibraltar.

St Albans served until 1765, when she was sold out of the Navy.

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