Name HMS Chichester Builder Portsmouth Dockyard Launched 4 June 1753 Beam 14 m | Ordered 12 July 1750 Fate Broken up, 1803 Length 49 m | |
Honours and
awards Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" Class and type 1750 amendments 70-gun third rate ship of the line | ||
HMS Chichester was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the standard draught for 70-gun ships as specified in the 1745 Establishment amended in 1750, and launched on 4 June 1753.
Because Chichester served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.
Chichester served until 1803, when she was broken up.
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