Name HMS Orford Laid down 24 February 1746 Launched 1749 | Ordered 31 August 1745 Commissioned March 1755 | |
Builder John Hollond (1746)
Thomas Fellowes (1746-1749), Woolwich Dockyard Fate Sunk as a breakwater, Sheerness, 1783 | ||
HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched in 1749.
Orford was placed on harbour service in 1777, and in 1783 she was sunk to form part of a breakwater.
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