Name HMS Preston Fate Broken up, 1815 Launched 7 February 1757 | Ordered 28 March 1751 Tons burthen 1044 (bm) | |
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Notes Participated inBattle of Dogger Bank Class and type 1745 Establishment 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line | ||
HMS Preston was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 7 February 1757.
She took part in the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War under William Hotham. On 13 August 1778, cut off from her squadron by a storm, she encountered the French 74-gun Marseillois, which she fought indecisively.
Taking part in the Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) where she was disabled, with her commander, Captain Graeme losing an arm, she was sailed back to the Thames by Lieutenant Saumarez
In 1785, Preston was converted to serve as a sheer hulk, and she was eventually broken up in 1815.
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