HMS Surprize (1746)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Surprize.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Surprize
Ordered:	11 August 1744
Builder:	James Wyatt & John Major, Bucklers Hard
Laid down:	September 1745
Launched:	27 January 1746
Commissioned:	January 1746
Fate:	Sold to be broken up on 17 July 1770
General characteristics
Class & type:	sixth rate
Tons burthen:	508 tons bm
Length:	112 ft 6 in (34.3 m) (gundeck) 91 ft 10 in (28.0 m) (keel)
Beam:	32 ft 3 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 1 in (3.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	24 guns comprising 22 x 9-pounders (20 on upper deck, 2 on lower deck) and 2 x 3-pounders (on quarter deck).

HMS Surprize was a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was built to the 1741 revised specifications of the 1719 Establishment by James Wyatt and John Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River 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. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.