Name HMS Superb Builder Woolwich Dockyard Tons burthen 1068 | Ordered 4 September 1733 Fate Broken up, 1757 Launched 27 August 1736 | |
Class and type 1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line | ||
HMS Superb was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 27 August 1736.
A collection of letters from Captain Thomas Sanders at the Navy Historical Center in Washington D. C. shows Superb took part in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) as the flagship of Commodore Peter Warren "Commanding His Majesty's Ships in the North Atlantic" under command of Captain Tiddeman.
Superb was broken up in 1757.
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