Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Kent’ (1724), a 70-gun, two-decker, third-rate ship of the line. The model shows ‘Number 47’ on the starboard broadside, a previous catalogue number. The dimensions are very near those of the Establishment of 1719 for 70-gun ships and the ‘Kent’ was rebuilt on that Establishment in 1724. The combination of solid and double wales would also be appropriate to that date although the identification is not entirely certain.

Ships of this type were approximately 151 feet by 41½ feet. It would have weighed 1128 tons burden and carried 480 men. It was armed with twenty-six 24-pound guns on its gun deck, twenty-six 12-pounders and four 6-pounders on its upper deck, and 14 more 6-pounders on its quarterdeck.

The ‘Kent’ was built at Woolwich and launched in 1724. It was part of Wager’s fleet off the Spanish coast in 1726 and 1727, and spent the next two years in Portsmouth, when it was twice prepared for service in the Mediterranean. It went to the Tagus station in 1734, and returned to home waters in 1738. With the ‘Orford’ and the ‘Lenox’, the ‘Kent’ captured the Spanish prize ‘Princessa’ (see SLR0441) off Finisterre in 1740. Thereafter, the ‘Kent’ was redeployed to the Caribbean on the West Indian convoys in 1741 and then saw service off Santiago in 1741 and Porto Bello in 1742. It went to Jamaica in 1744 and was broken up later that year.