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HMS Medway (1693)

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Name
  
HMS Medway

Tons burthen
  
914 bm

Launched
  
20 September 1693

Fate
  
Broken up, 1749

Beam
  
38 ft (11.6 m)

Builder
  
Daniel Furzer

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

Length
  
145 ft 3 in (44.3 m) (gundeck)

HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 20 September 1693.

Medway, together with Chatham and Triton, captured the French Auguste on 19 August 1705.

She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and relaunched on 1 August 1718. Medway was hulked in 1740.

She was eventually broken up in 1749.

References

HMS Medway (1693) Wikipedia


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