HMS Captain (1743)

History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Captain
Ordered	7 September 1739
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched	14 April 1743
Fate	Broken up, 1783
Notes	Participated in:; Battle of Dogger Bank;
General characteristics
Class and type	1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1230 (bm)
Length	151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam	43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns; Upper gundeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns; QD: 14 × 6-pounder guns; Fc: 4 × 6-pounder guns;

HMS Captain was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 14 April 1743.^[1]

Francis Light, founder of Penang, served for a few months as an apprentice on Captain around 1759.^[2]

In 1760, Captain was reduced to a 64-gun ship. Then in 1777 she was converted to serve as a storeship and renamed Buffalo.

Although a storeship, Buffalo shared, with Thetis, and , in the proceeds from Southampton's capture of the 12-gun French privateer Comte de Maurepas, on 3 August 1780.^[3]

In 1781, with 60 guns back on board, although she only had 18-pounders on the lower deck, she participated in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at the Battle of Dogger Bank.^[4]^: 46

Buffalo returned to the role of storeship until she was broken up in 1783.^[1]

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 171.
^ Clodd, Harold Parker (1948), Malaya's first British pioneer: the life of Francis Light, Luzac, p. 1, ISBN 978-0-375-42750-3, retrieved 26 October 2019
^ "No. 12325". The London Gazette. 24 August 1782. p. 1.
^ Ross, Sir John. Memoirs of Admiral de Saumarez Vol 1.

References[]

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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[Lavery,_SoLv1_p171-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 171.

[2] Clodd, Harold Parker (1948), Malaya's first British pioneer: the life of Francis Light, Luzac, p. 1, ISBN 978-0-375-42750-3, retrieved 26 October 2019

[3] "No. 12325". The London Gazette. 24 August 1782. p. 1.

[SJRAdeS-4] Ross, Sir John. Memoirs of Admiral de Saumarez Vol 1.

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History

Great Britain
Name	HMS Captain
Ordered	7 September 1739
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched	14 April 1743
Fate	Broken up, 1783
Notes	Participated in: Battle of Dogger Bank
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type	1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1230 (bm)
Length	151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam	43 ft 5 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 14 × 6-pounder guns Fc: 4 × 6-pounder guns