HMS Sandwich (1679)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Great Britain |Ship flag=File:Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg |Ship name=HMS Sandwich |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Betts, Harwich |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=May 1679 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= BEACHY HEAD 1690, BARFLEUR 1692, BELLEISLE 1761 |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Broken up, 1770 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=as builtLavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 162. |Ship class=90-gun second rate ship of the line |Ship tons burthen=1,395 |Ship length={{convert|161|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck) |Ship beam={{convert|44|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship hold depth={{convert|18|ft|3|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship propulsion=Sails |Ship complement= |Ship armament=90 guns of various weights of shot |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=after 1712 rebuildLavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 167. |Ship class=1706 Establishment 90-gun second rate ship of the line |Ship tons burthen=1,573 |Ship length={{convert|162|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck) |Ship beam={{convert|47|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship hold depth={{convert|18|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship propulsion=Sails |Ship complement= |Ship armament=*90 guns:
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HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in May 1679 at Harwich.{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=72 |title=British Second Rate ship of the line 'Sandwich' (1679) |publisher=Threedecks |access-date=27 August 2019}}{{unreliable source?|date=July 2020}}
At the battle of Barfleur, she failed to anchor during the flood tide at evening and as a result was swept through the French fleet taking several raking shots with the captain Antony Hastings being killed.Philip Aubrey 1979 The Defeat of James Stuart's Armada 1692 p101 {{ISBN|0 7185 1168 9}}
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.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships built in Harwich
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