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HMS Captain (1743)

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Name
  
HMS Captain

Builder
  
Woolwich Dockyard

Launched
  
14 April 1743

Ordered
  
7 September 1739

Fate
  
Broken up, 1783

Length
  
46 m

Notes
  
Participated in Battle of Dogger Bank

Class and type
  
1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line

HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 14 April 1743.

In 1760, Captain was reduced to a 64-gun ship. Then in 1777 she was converted to serve as a storeship and renamed Buffalo.

Although a storeship, Buffalo shared, with Thetis, and Alarm, in the proceeds from Southampton's capture of the 12-gun French privateer Comte de Maurepas, on 3 August 1780.

In 1781, with 60 guns back on board, although she only had 18 pounders on the lower deck, she participated in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at the Battle of Dogger Bank.

Buffalo returned to the role of storeship until she was broken up in 1783.

References

HMS Captain (1743) Wikipedia