HMS Rochester (1749)

HMS Rochester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 3 August 1749.
In contrast to standard practise at the time, Rochester was not built to the Establishment of dimensions in effect at the time. Rochester and her sister-ship,, were longer than the Establishment specified, and were ordered as an experiment in building larger ships in response to the widening gulf between the sizes of British ships and their continental counterparts.
Rochester was eventually sold out of the navy in 1770.
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