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HMS Restoration (1706)

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Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
Name: HMS Restoration
Builder: Allin, Deptford Dockyard
Launched: 1 August 1706
Fate: Wrecked, 9 November 1711
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 110648&fras1;94 (bm)
Length: 151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 41 ft (12.5 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament: 70 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Restoration was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 1 August 1706,[1] after the previous Restoration had been lost in the Great Storm of 1703.

This ship also had a premature end when she was wrecked off Livorno on 9 November 1711.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • 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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