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HMS Edgar (1758)

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Name
  
HMS Edgar

Builder
  
Randall, Rotherhithe

Launched
  
16 November 1758

Ordered
  
19 April 1756

Tons burthen
  
1297  ⁄94 bm

Fate
  
Sunk as a breakwater, 1774

Class and type
  
Edgar-class ship of the line

HMS Edgar was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 November 1758 at Rotherhithe.

The physician Thomas Denman served on Edgar until 1763.

She was sunk as a breakwater in 1774.

References

HMS Edgar (1758) Wikipedia