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HMS Dragon (1736)

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Name
  
HMS Dragon

Builder
  
Woolwich Dockyard

Launched
  
11 September 1736

Ordered
  
19 October 1733

Tons burthen
  
1067

Fate
  
Sunk as a breakwater, 1757

Class and type
  
1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line

HMS Dragon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 11 September 1736.

In February 1744, she took part in the Battle of Toulon.

Dragon was sunk in 1757 to form part of a breakwater.

References

HMS Dragon (1736) Wikipedia