Name HMS Britannia Tons burthen 1620 ⁄94 (bm) Designer Phineas Pett II | Fate Broken up, 1749 Launched 1682 | |
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Length 167 ft 5 in (51.0 m) (gundeck) Place built Chatham Dockyard, United Kingdom |
HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in 1682. In 1705 she took on board Charles III of Spain, when on her way to Catalonia
In 1715, Britannia was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard, from where she relaunched on 30 October 1719, again as a 100-gun first rate.
Britannia was placed on harbour service in 1745, and was broken up in 1749.
She was captained from 1734 to 1736 by Sir Tancred Robinson.
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