HMS_Chichester_(1706)

HMS <i>Chichester</i> (1695)

HMS Chichester (1695)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

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

HMS Chichester was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 6 March 1695.[1]

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She underwent a rebuild in 1706 at Woolwich Dockyard. Chichester served until 1749, when she was broken up.[2]

Tobias Smollett, later to become a well-known writer, served as a naval surgeon on the Chichester.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 163.
  2. [2]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.

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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