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HMS Nassau (1706)

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Name
  
HMS Nassau

Fate
  
Sold, 1770

Launched
  
9 January 1706

Builder
  
Portsmouth Dockyard

Tons burthen
  
1104 tons BM

Class and type
  
70-gun third rate ship of the line

Length
  
150 ft 6 in (45.9 m) (gundeck)

HMS Nassau was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 9 January 1706.

Orders were issued on 25 May 1736 directing Nassau to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Chatham, from where she was relaunched on 25 September 1740.

Nassau was sold out of the navy in 1770.

References

HMS Nassau (1706) Wikipedia