HMS Captain (1678)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Captain
Builder:	Thomas Shish, Deptford Dockyard
Launched:	1678
Fate:	Broken up, 1762
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,164 long tons (1,182.7 t)
Length:	149 ft 6 in (45.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	39 ft 10 in (12.1 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 2 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1708 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	1706 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,121 long tons (1,139.0 t)
Length:	150 ft (45.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	41 ft (12.5 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 4 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 6 pdrs
General characteristics after 1722 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	1719 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,131 long tons (1,149.1 t)
Length:	151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	41 ft 6 in (12.6 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 4 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Captain.

HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1678.^[1]

She underwent her first rebuild at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed as a 70-gun third rate built to the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 July 1708.^[2] Her second rebuild also took place at Portsmouth, from where she was relaunched on 21 May 1722 as a 70-gun third rate of the 1719 Establishment.^[3]

Captain was hulked in 1739, and eventually broken up in 1762.^[3]