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{{Short description|Former fourth-rate ship of the Royal Navy}}
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|Ship name=HMS ''Warwick''
|Ship ordered=14 March 1727
|Ship builder=Peirson Lock, [[Plymouth Dockyard]]
|Ship laid down=1 April 1730
|Ship launched=25 October 1733
|Ship completed=24 August 1734
|Ship commissioned=1734
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|Ship country=[[Kingdom of France|France]]
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|Ship name= ''Warwick''
|Ship acquired=by capture, 11 March 1756
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|Header caption=<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p170">Lavery, p.170</ref>
|Ship class=[[1719 Establishment]] 60-gun [[fourth-rate]] [[ship of the line]]
|Ship tons burthen=951{{fraction|27|94}} [[Builder's Old Measurement|(bm)]]
|Ship length=*{{convert|144|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
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|Ship sail plan=[[Full-rigged ship]]
|Ship complement=400
|Ship armament=*60 guns:
*Gundeck: 24 × 24-pdrs
*Upper gundeck: 26 × 9-pdrs
*Quarterdeck: 8 × 6-pdrs
*Forecastle: 2 × 6-pdrs
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'''HMS ''Warwick''''' was a 60-gun [[fourth-rate]] [[ship of the line]] of the [[Royal Navy]], built to the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth by [[Peirson Lock]].<ref name="NMM-WH-378787">{{cite web |url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_xi.pdf |title=NMM, vessel ID 378787 |work=Warship Histories, Vol XI |publisher=[[National Maritime Museum]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130806231943/http%3A//www.rmg.co.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_xi.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The keel was laid down on 1 April 1730, and the ship was launched on 25 October 1733, and completed on 24 August 1734.<ref name="Winfield">Winfield</ref>

==Service history==
''Warwick'' was commissioned under the command of Captain Edmund Brooke. She proved to be an inferior design; top-heavy and with a tendency to [[heel (sailing)|heel over]] in strong winds.<ref>Clowes, p.290</ref> In 1735 she was with the fleet of Admiral [[John Norris (Royal Navy officer)|John Norris]] in the [[Tagus]]. In October 1736 she returned to England and was paid off.<ref name="NMM-WH-378787"/>

She was recommissioned in June 1739 under the command of Captain John Toller, and served with Admiral [[Nicholas Haddock]]'s fleet in the Mediterranean. Command had passed to Captain [[Temple West]] by 1743, under whom she was present at the [[Battle of Toulon (1744)|Battle of Toulon]] on 11 February 1744.<ref name="NMM-WH-378787"/>

She was recommissioned in January 1746 under the command of Captain Robert Erskine.<ref name="NMM-WH-378787"/> On 14 July 1747, ''Warwick'' was off the Azores in company with the 40-gun ''Lark'', Captain John Crookshanks, when she encountered the Spanish [[Seventy-four (ship)|74]] ''[[Voyage of the Glorioso|Glorioso]]'', sailing from the [[Spanish Main]] with 3 million [[Spanish dollar|dollars]] in treasure. ''Warwick'' attacked but, left unsupported, was beaten to a standstill, and the ''Glorioso'' escaped. Crookshanks, who was the senior officer, was [[cashiered]].<ref>Clowes, pp.285–286</ref>

In 1748, under the command of Captain Thomas Innes, ''Warwick'' was part of the squadron under [[Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet|Sir Charles Knowles]] in the Caribbean, and took part on the attacks on Fort Saint Louis de Sud and [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba (1748)|Santiago de Cuba]] in March and April, and in the [[Battle of Havana (1748)|Battle of Havana]] on 12 October 1748.<ref name="NMM-WH-378787"/>

===Capture by France===
She was recommissioned in March 1755 under the command of Captain [[Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham|Molyneux Shuldham]] and sailed for the [[Leeward Islands]].<ref name="NMM-WH-378787"/> On 21 December 1755 ''Warwick'' was detached by Commodore [[Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet|Thomas Frankland]] to cruise in the neighbourhood of [[Martinique]]. At daybreak on 11 March 1756, three French ships were sighted, and ''Warwick'' attempted to escape. The ships were the 74-gun [[French ship Prudent (1753)|''Prudent'']], under [[Charles-Alexandre Morell d'Aubigny|Aubigny]], and the frigates [[French frigate Atalante (1741)|''Atalante'']], under [[Louis Charles du Chaffault de Besné|Duchaffault]], and [[French frigate Zéphyr (1729)|''Zéphyr'']]. In the heavy seas ''Warwick'' was unable to bring her lower deck guns into action, and also her crew had been depleted by illness, with less than 300 from her crew of 400 fit. ''Atalante'' (34), Captain Du Chaffault, came up on her quarter, and kept up a steady fire, cutting up her rigging. ''Prudent'' then also drew in close and opened fire. Shuldham ordered his guns to fire on the larger ship, firing at ''Atalante'' with small-arms only. After half an hour, in a hopeless position, ''Warwick'' surrendered. Shuldham was held as a prisoner of war for two years. On his return to England he was court-martialled for the loss of his ship, but found to have "done his duty."<ref>Clowes, pp.290–291</ref>

===Recapture by Great Britain===
[[File:Captain Alexander Hood, 1726-1814 RMG L8414.jpg|thumb|Captain Alexander Hood, in 1759, inserted is the scene where Hood recaptured ''Warwick'']]
On 20 January 1761 ''Warwick'' sailed from [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime|Rochefort]], mounting only 34 guns, and loaded with provisions, ammunition, stores, and a detachment of troops bound for the [[Isle de France (Mauritius)|Isle de France]] (now Mauritius). On the 24th she was recaptured by {{HMS|Minerva|1759|6}}, under the command of Captain [[Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport|Alexander Hood]], in the [[Bay of Biscay]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=10076 |date=3 February 1761 |page=5 }}</ref> She proved unfit for further service and was broken up later that year.<ref name="NMM-WH-378787"/>

==See also==
* [[List of ships captured in the 18th century]]

==References==
===Notes===
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
* {{Cite book |last1=Clowes |first1=William Laird |author-link1=William Laird Clowes |title=The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/royalnavy04clow |volume=III |year=1898 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company |location=London }}
* {{Cite book |last1=Lavery |first1=Brian |author-link1=Brian Lavery |title=The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850 |year=2003 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |ISBN=0-85177-252-8 }}
* {{Cite book |last1=Winfield |first1=Rif |title=[[British Warships in the Age of Sail]] 1714–1792 |year=2007 |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1-84415-700-6 }}
* {{WarshipHist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|HMS Warwick (ship, 1733)}}
* [http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=6049 ''Warwick'' (60) (1733)]. Michael Phillips' "Ship's of the Old Navy".

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