HMS Oxford (1674)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Oxford.

HMS Oxford was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Francis Baylie in Bristol and launched in June 1674.^[1] Her guns comprised twenty-two 24-pounders on the lower deck, with twenty-two large sakers (8-pounders) on the upper deck and ten smaller sakers (5-pounders) on the quarterdeck.

Oxford, plan of her 1727 rebuild
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Oxford
Ordered	11 September 1672
Builder	Baylie, Bristol
Launched	June 1674
Fate	Broken up, 1758
General characteristics as built[1]
Class & type	54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	670.2 tons
Length	109 ft (33 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft (10 m)
Depth of hold	15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	54 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1727 rebuild[2]
Class & type	1719 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	767 tons
Length	134 ft (41 m) (gundeck)
Beam	36 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold	15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 18-pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 9-pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6-pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6-pdrs

On 23 February 1684, Captain John Tyrrell was appointed to command the ship. In 1692 she was at the Battle of Barfleur under the command of Captain James Wishart. From 1701 to 1702 Oxford underwent a Great Repair amounting to rebuilding at Deptford.^[1][3]

On 29 June 1723 she was ordered to be taken to pieces at Portsmouth Dockyard, and rebuilt by Joseph Allin the younger to the lines of a 50-gun fourth rate of the 1719 Establishment. She relaunched on 10 July 1727.^[2]

Towards the end of the Seven Years' War the ship was commanded by Mariot Arbuthnot.

Oxford was broken up in 1758.^[2]