HMS Cornwall (1692)

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HMS Cornwall was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1692.

She served in the War of the Grand Alliance, and in her first year took part in the Battle of Barfleur and the action at La Hougue.

She was rebuilt in 1705–1706 at Rotherhithe. After this, she served in the Mediterranean where in the War of the Spanish Succession she was involved in the capture of a French convoy off Catalonia in May 1708.

After yet another rebuild, this time in Deptford, which lasted from 1723–1726, she had a pleasant peacetime service in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean. She was not recommissioned until 1742 even though the War of the Austrian Succession had led to fighting between Great Britain and Spain in 1739. Cornwall initially served off Spain, but was later deployed to the West Indies where, in March 1748, she took part in the capture of Port Louis in the French colony of Haiti. In October 1749, Cornwall captured a 64-gun Spanish frigate during the defence of a convoy off Havana.

She became a prison ship in 1755, ended her career in 1760 and was broken up in 1761.