Royal Navy Ships, built Woolwich Pt 2 1700-1760.
Woolwich Ropehouse stood in what is now Beresford Street. It was the sole supplier of rope to the Royal Navy from 1573 to 1756.
In 1750, 400 men and women were employed. By 1756, when rope making had been transferred to the dockyards there were only 27 people working there.
Woolwich built ships 1700-1760.
1700 HMS Kingfisher 4th rate Built by Fisher Harding.
1700 HMS Monmouth (rebuild) 66 guns.
1701 Royal Sovereign 100 guns.
1702 Tartar 32 guns.
Woolwich (r) 50 guns.
1703 Garland 44 guns.
1704 Swift 12 guns.
1705 Drake 14 guns. John Poulter.
Resolution 70 guns.
1706 Chichester (r) 80 guns.
Elizabeth 70 guns. Richard Stscey.
1707 Falmouth 50 guns. Richard Stacey.
Flamborough 24 guns. Richard Stacey.
Gosport 44 guns. Richard Stacey.
1708 Sweepstakes 32 guns.
1709 Royal Anne Galley 42 guns Richard Stacey.
1710 Devonshire 80 guns.
1711 Ormonde 54 guns. Jacob Acworth. Renamed Dragon, 1715.
Blandford 20 guns.
Happy snow-sloop 14 guns.
Hind 20 guns.
1712 Greyhound 24 guns. Jacob Acworth.
Ipswich (r) 70 guns.
1713 Royal Oak (r) 70 guns.
1715 Cambridge (r) 80 guns.
Royal George 100 guns.
1716 Panther (r) 54 guns. John Hayward,
Dartmouth (r) John Hayward.
1717 Guernsey John Hayward
1718 Weymouth (r) 48 guns. John Hayward.
1719 Britannia 100 guns.
Torbay (r) 80 guns.
1720 Shoreham (r) 20 guns.
1721 Ferret 4 guns. John Hayward.
Northumberland (r) 70 guns.
Superb (r) 64 guns.
Leopard (r) 54 guns. John Hayward.
Argyll John Hayward.
Weazle 8 guns.
1723 Ludlow Castle (r) 42 guns.
Stirling Castle (r) 70 guns.
1724 Rose (r) 20 guns.
1725 Assistance (r) 50 guns. John Hayward.
Grafton (r) 70 guns.
1726 Lark (r) 42 guns.
1727 Phoenix (r) fireship 8 guns
1729 Falmouth John Hayward.
1730 Neptune (r) 90 guns.
Salamander bomb 6 guns John Hayward.
1731 Grampus snow 16 guns. John Hayward.
1731 Somerset 80 guns.
Princess Caroline (r) 80 guns.
1732 Bonetta 14 guns sloop.
New Castle John Hayward.
Royal Louise 32 guns.
1733 Pembroke 60 guns. John Hayward.
Roebuck (r) 42 guns.
1735 Rippon (r) 60 guns.
Alderney 8 guns.
1736 Dragon 60 guns. John Hayward.
Superb 60 guns.
1739 Cumberland (r) 66 guns.
Suffolk (r) 64 guns.
1740 Essex (r) 64 guns.
1741 Antelope (r) 54 guns. John Hayward.
Dartmouth (r) 48 guns. John Hayward.
1742 Winsor 60 guns.
1743 Captain 70 guns.
Northumberland 70 guns. John Holland.
1745 Devonshire 74 guns.
Windsor (r) 60 guns.
1746 Bristol (r) 50 guns. John Holland.
1749 Lancaster 66 guns.
Orford 70 guns.
1750 Savage 8 guns Thomas Fellowes.
1751 Dolphin 24 guns.
1752 Falmouth 50 guns. Cost of hull £19,974, 4 shillings and 8 pence. Adam Hayes.
Ranger sloop 8 guns. Coh £2,381, 3s, 3d.
Thomas Miltons plan of 1753 shows Woolwich Dockyard with one double dock, a single dock and 5 slipways.
Total area was around twenty acres, with a river frontage of 1,500ft. The landside was enclosed by a high wall, but there were no land fortifications.
1754 HMS Dunkirt 60 guns. Coh £20,379, 4s 8d.
Happy Sloop 8 guns.
1755 Squirrel 20 guns. Coh £7,272, 2s 5d.
1756
Royal George 100 guns Coh £54,661, 2s 10d.
The Royal George sunk in August 1782 with the loss of some 900 people.
1757 Princess Amelia 80 guns Coh £37,562, 2s, 8d.
Boreas 28 guns.
Trent 28 guns.
1758 Rippon 60 guns.
1759 Mars 74 guns.
1760 Thunderer 74 guns. Coh £33,044, 7s 2d.
The building of the Thunderer is covered in detail in 'Building the Wooden Fighting Ship' by James Dodds and James Moore.
Chatham publishing 1984. ISBN 1 86176 229 1. 255mm x255mm. Heavily illustrated with black and white drawings, photos.
Describes in detail the building of a 74 gun third rate ship of 1760, from the timber trade and purchase of stores to the launching and fitting out.
Sample pages @
http://modelshipworld.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1286Ordinary Officers, Woolwich, 1759.
For more details see above book.
Clerk of the cheque; James B Morn. Quarterley wage, £37 10s 0d
Storekeeper; Hezekiah Hargood. Qw, £37 10s 0d
Master attendant; Walter Taylor Qw £37 10s 0d
Master shipwright; Isral Pownoll Qw £37 10s 0d
Clerk to the survey; Ezekial Pomeroy Qw £37 10s 0d
Master shipwrights assistant; George White Qw £20 0s 0d
Master caulker and second assistant to master shipwright; James Mooringe Qw £20 0s 0d
Boatswain; Richard Dutton Qw £17 10s 0d
Purveyor; George Goldsworth Qw £15 0s 0d
Surgeon; Jeremiah Fitcher Qw £25 0s 0d
Master mastmaker; Isaac Weeks Qw £11 11s 0d
Master boatbuilder; Richard Luallett Qw £11 11s 0d
Master joiner; Andrew Doe Qw £9 12s 6d
Master house carpenter; Mathew Ellery Qw £9 12s 0d
Master bricklayer; Martin Smith Qw £9 12s 6d
Master sailmaker; Joseph Pratt Qw £11 11s 0d
Mastersmith; Joseph Rippington Qw £10 19s 0d
Porter; Hezekiah Woodall Qw £6 5s 0d
As keeper of the plugs £2 5s 0d
Ratkiller; John Edwards Qw £1 0s 0d
Keeper of the clock; Simeon Hill Qw 15s 0d
There were also clerks, nightwatchmen and skeleton crews.