HMS Tilbury (1699) explained

HMS Tilbury was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built (six by commercial contract and two in the Royal Dockyards); the others were the Hampshire, Dartmouth, Winchester, Salisbury, Worcester, Jersey and Carlisle. Construction of the Tilbury was awarded to Chatham Dockyard, where she was designed and built by Master Shipwright Daniel Furzer, and she was launched there on 3 September 1699 - the last of the eight ships to be finished.^{[1] [2]}

The Tilbury served until 1726, when she docked at Chatham Dockyard on 4 November and was broken up.^[3]

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .
• Winfield, Rif (1997), The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History. Chatham Publishing (1st edition); Mercury Books (2nd edition 2005). .
• Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. .

Notes and References

1. Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714, p.137.
2. Web site: British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Tilbury' (1699) . Threedecks . 18 November 2019.
3. Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714, p.137.