Name HMS Dorsetshire Builder Chatham Dockyard Tons burthen 1436 Length 49 m | Ordered 19 January 1754 Fate Broken up, 1775 Launched 13 December 1757 Beam 14 m | |
Class and type 1754 amendments 70-gun third rate ship of the line | ||
HMS Dorsetshire was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, amended in 1754, and launched on 13 December 1757.
At the Action of 29 April 1758, Dorestshire defeated and captured French ship of the line Raisonnable in the Bay of Biscay.
Dorsetshire served until 1775, when she was broken up.
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