Name HMS Windsor Castle Commissioned 1690 Launched 4 March 1679 | Ordered 5 May 1677 Fate Wrecked, 28 April 1693 | |
Class and type 90-gun second rate ship of the line | ||
HMS Windsor Castle was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Thomas Shish at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched in 1679.
Windsor Castle commissioned in 1690 under Captain George Churchill and took part in the Battle of Beachy Head on 30 June 1690. In 1692 she was under the command of Captain Peregrine Osborne, and took part in the Battle of Barfleur on 19–24 May 1692. In 1693 she was commanded by Captain John Munden, but was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands in April 1693.
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