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History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Sandwich
Builder	Betts, Harwich
Launched	May 1679
Honours and awards	BEACHY HEAD 1690, BARFLEUR 1692, BELLEISLE 1761
Fate	Broken up, 1770
General characteristics as built
Class and type	90-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,395
Length	161 ft 6 in (49.2 m) (gundeck)
Beam	44 ft 6 in (13.6 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft 3 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	90 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1712 rebuild
Class and type	1706 Establishment 90-gun second rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,573
Length	162 ft (49.4 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft (14.3 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	90 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs Middle gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 9 pdrs Quarterdeck: 10 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in May 1679 at Harwich.

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.

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.

Notes

1. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 162.
2. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 167.
3. "British Second Rate ship of the line 'Sandwich' (1679)". Threedecks. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
4. Philip Aubrey 1979 The Defeat of James Stuart's Armada 1692 p101 ISBN 0 7185 1168 9
5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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.

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