HMS Chichester (1753)

History
UK
Name	HMS Chichester
Ordered	12 July 1750
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched	4 June 1753
Honours and; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"
Fate	Broken up, 1803
General characteristics
Class and type	1750 amendments 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1401 (bm)
Length	160 ft (48.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam	44 ft 9 in (13.6 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 6 in (5.9 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 26 × 32-pounder guns; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns; QD: 12 × 9-pounder guns; Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns;

HMS Chichester was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the standard draught for 70-gun ships as specified in the 1745 Establishment amended in 1750, and launched on 4 June 1753.^[1]

Because Chichester served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.^{[Note 1]}

Chichester served until 1803, when she was broken up.^[1]

Notes and citations

Notes

^ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[2]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 174.
^ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823.

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

[3] A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[2]

[Lavery,_SoLv1_p174-1] Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 174.

[2] "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823.

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