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s lieutenants and warrant officers reported that 131 crew were too diseased to work, and that the remaining 30 healthy men were too few to sail the ship. The lieutenants also noted that these healthy men were all impressed landsmen with no useful skills, describing them as "raw and unskilled sailors,
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The keel of the rebuilt vessel was laid on 30 August 1713, but construction was slow and the ship was not launched until two years later, on 17 September 1715. As rebuilt, her dimensions were in keeping with other vessels of the
Establishment. Her overall length was 156 ft 1 in
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that her lower gun ports were at the waterline and opening them risked shipping a large quantity of seawater into the hull. Shifting the lower deck guns to the middle and upper decks accentuated the second flaw, which was a high centre of gravity that made
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advised the
British Parliament that France was expanding its fleet and that the Royal Navy would soon be outgunned. In response the Parliament approved construction of a new generation of ships each carrying 80 guns instead of the traditional
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s two lieutenants ... have brought from Dublin seventy or eighty people - all boys, broken tradesmen, diseased landsmen and so on - that I can't pick ten out of the whole number fit to be sent aboard."
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finally sailed with the fleet on 20 July. Six days later, heavy winds and rain forced the fleet back to the port of Torbay, where it remained for six weeks. Fever had broken out, and
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of landsmen into Navy service. The operation was a success but the quality of recruits was poor. On reviewing one band of press-ganged men, Admiral Philip
Cavendish noted, "
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in the middle deck and twenty-two 6-pounder guns in the newly built upper deck. Another six 6-pounders were fitted along the quarterdeck to make up the 80-gun arsenal.
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was one such vessel, built with the traditional two full-length gun decks of a 74-gun ship but topped with an additional half-length deck to increase her armament.
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from April 1715. Acworth's design also lowered the mast yards almost to the level of the deck, in an effort to address the top-heaviness of her earlier design.
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From 1746 to 1748 she was again removed from service while consideration was given to rebuilding her with fewer guns. The investigation was inconclusive, and
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the very worst that any of us were ever at sea with." With similar reports received from other vessels, the fleet's objectives were abandoned and
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381:Surveyor of the Navy
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284:War of Jenkins' Ear
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603:6 September
447:John Norris
428:impressment
408:18-pounders
288:John Norris
1310:Categories
1226:Winchester
1170:Assistance
1135:Gloucester
1068:Nottingham
1033:Gloucester
977:Expedition
921:Resolution
882:Shrewsbury
868:Devonshire
861:Cumberland
694:0851772528
513:References
404:32-pounder
280:in reserve
272:Royal Navy
265:third rate
214:Propulsion
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99:third rate
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270:of the
97:80-gun
65:Builder
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1026:Lion
727:ISBN
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672:OCLC
605:2015
258:HMS
198:Beam
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