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HMS Devonshire (1745)

History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
Name: HMS Devonshire
Ordered: 25 April 1741
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 19 July 1745
Honours and
awards:
Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1747
Fate: Broken up, 1772
General characteristics
Class and type: 1741 proposals 66-gun third rate ship of the line
Length: 161 ft (49.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 46 ft (14.0 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 4 in (5.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 66 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 10 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs

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.

Devonshire served until 1772, when she was broken up.


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