3rd Rate ships of the Royal Navy. 1793 to 1815.

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HMS Milford (1809)


Milford



HMS Milford was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 16th of December 1796 and built to a Jean-Louis Barralier design, adapted from his lines for the Spencer in 1795. Laid down in the June of 1798, it was built by Jacobs of Milford Haven. He went bankrupt during the construction and the project had to be completed by the Government. This was to become the beginnings of the embryonic establishment of Milford Haven Dockyard. Milford was finally launched on the1st of April, 1809. As a large class 74, she was the only ship built to her draught. This also enabled her to carry 24 pdrs on her upper gun deck, instead of the usual 18 pdrs found on the middling and common class 74s.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Milford
Ordered:	16 December 1796
Builder:	Jacobs, Milford Haven
Laid down:	June 1798
Launched:	1 April 1809
Fate:	Broken up, 1846
General characteristics
Class and type:		74-gun Milford Class third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1918 (bm)
Length:		181 ft,1 in (55 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		49 ft,1.5 in (15 m)
Depth of hold:		21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns ·Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder guns ·QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns ·Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns · ·*All 9-pounders later replaced by 32 pdr Carronades.

Service.


HMS Milford was commissioned under Captain Henry Bayntun for Channel service in 1810 as the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Durham bound for the Baltic. Later in that year she came under the command of Captain Edward Kittoe as the Flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Richard Keats, and sailed for the Med on the18th of August.


In 1812 she was placed under the command of Captain John Duff Markland as Flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas Freemantle in the Med.On the 3rd of July 1813 Milford was involved in the attack on Fiume. Her boats, along with those from Weasel, were used at Rogozinica on the 4th of August, and between the 5th and the 29th of October, Milford was involved in the capture of Trieste.

Fate.


Milford was paid off in 1814 and went into ordinary. Between the May and June of 1825 she was fitted as a lazarette at Plymouth, and was then transported to Milford. From the July of that year until 1842 she served there in that capacity. Finally removed to Pembroke she was broken up there in 1846.