HMS Cumberland (1695)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Cumberland
Builder:	Wyatt, Bursledon
Launched:	12 November 1695
Captured:	1707
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type:	80-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,220 long tons (1,239.6 t)
Length:	156 ft (47.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	42 ft (12.8 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	80 guns of various weights of shot

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

HMS Cumberland was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 12 November 1695.^[1]

Cumberland was captured by the French in the Battle at the Lizard in 1707. In 1715 she was sold to Genoa, in 1717 to Spain and renamed Principe de Asturias. Then captured back by Britain at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718 and sold to Austria in 1720, and renamed San Carlos.^{[citation needed]}