HMS Lowestoffe (1756)

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

Lowestoff
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Lowestoffe
Operator	Royal Navy
Ordered	20 May 1755
Builder	John Greaves, Limehouse
Laid down	June 1755
Launched	17 May 1756
Completed	8 June 1756 at Deptford Dockyard
Commissioned	May 1756
Fate	Wrecked 19 May 1760
General characteristics
Class & type	Lowestoffe-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	594 33⁄94 (bm)
Length	118 ft 3 in (36 m) (gundeck) 97 ft 7+3⁄8 in (29.8 m) (keel)
Beam	33 ft 10 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 4 in (3.1 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	200 officers and men
Armament	Upperdeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 3-pounder guns 12 × swivel guns

HMS Lowestoffe was a 28-gun Lowestoffe-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Named after the UK's most easterly port of Lowestoft in Suffolk the ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade based on the earlier Lyme of 1748, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns." The design provided for a 24-gun ship (from 22 September 1756 this was raised to 28 guns by including the 3 pounders on the quarterdeck in the count) of 583 tons, but on completion the ship measured some 11 tons more.

Lowestoffe in the Saint Lawrence River, 1759

The ship served in the British operations to relieve Quebec during the Seven Years' War before being wrecked off Pointe-aux-Trembles on 19 May 1760.

References

• Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN   0-85177-601-9.
• David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN   0-85177-617-5.
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN   978-1-84415-700-6.

External links

• Media related to HMS Lowestoffe (ship, 1756) at Wikimedia Commons