Name HMS Chichester Fate Broken up, 1749 | Launched 6 March 1695 | |
Tons burthen 1,210 long tons (1,229.4 t) Length 157 ft 3 in (47.9 m) (gundeck) | ||
HMS Chichester was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 6 March 1695.
She underwent a rebuild in 1706 at Woolwich Dockyard. Chichester served until 1749, when she was broken up.
Tobias Smollett, later to become a well-known writer, served as a naval surgeon on the Chichester.
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