Name HMS Sandwich Tons burthen 1,395 Builder Harwich | Fate Broken up, 1770 Launched 1679 | |
Honours and
awards BEACHY HEAD 1690, BARFLEUR 1692, BELLEISLE 1761 Class and type 90-gun second rate ship of the line Length 161 ft 6 in (49.2 m) (gundeck) | ||
HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1679 at Harwich.
She underwent a rebuild at Chatham Dockyard, from where she was relaunched on 21 April 1712 as a 90-gun second rate built to the 1706 Establishment. Sandwich was broken up in 1770.
From March 1720 - November 1721, William Smellie, who became a man-midwife and the 'master of British midwifery', 'it seems certain' was naval surgeon on HMS Sandwich.
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