History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Surprize
Ordered	11 August 1744
Builder	James Wyatt & John Major, Bucklers Hard
Laid down	September 1745
Launched	27 January 1746
Commissioned	January 1746
Fate	Sold to be broken up on 17 July 1770
General characteristics
Class and type	sixth rate
Tons burthen	508 tons bm
Length	112 ft 6 in (34.3 m) (gundeck) 91 ft 10 in (28.0 m) (keel)
Beam	32 ft 3 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 1 in (3.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	24 guns comprising 22 x 9-pounders (20 on upper deck, 2 on lower deck) and 2 x 3-pounders (on quarter deck).

HMS Surprize was a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was built to the 1741 revised specifications of the 1719 Establishment by James Wyatt and John Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire and launched on 27 January 1745.

She was broken up in 1770.

References[edit]

• Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.