HMS_Devonshire_(1745)

HMS <i>Devonshire</i> (1745)

HMS Devonshire (1745)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

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

HMS Devonshire was a 66-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions laid out in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 19 July 1745.[1]

Devonshire shown here at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)

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Devonshire served until 1772, when she was broken up.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 172.

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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