HMS_Coventry_(1695)

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

HMS Coventry (1695)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

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

HMS Coventry was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1695.[1]

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The French 54-gun Auguste, together with the 54-gun Jason, captured Coventry in September 1704.[1][2]

On 17 March 1709, Portland recaptured Coventry.[3]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 164.
  2. [2]
    Roche (2005), p.57.
  3. [3]
    Roche (2005), p.134.

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.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005) Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la Flotte de Guerre Française de Colbert à nos Jours. (Group Retozel-Maury Millau), Vol. 1.

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