HMS Exeter (1697)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Exeter
Builder:	Bagwell, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched:	26 May 1697
Fate:	Broken up, 1763
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	949 long tons (964.2 t)
Length:	148 ft (45.1 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	38 ft 2 in (11.6 m)
Depth of hold:	15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	60 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1744 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	1733 proposals 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,068 long tons (1,085.1 t)
Length:	144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	41 ft 5 in (12.6 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 11 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	60 guns of various weights of shot

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

HMS Exeter was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 26 May 1697.^[1]

She was rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth, and relaunched on 19 March 1744. Exeter continued to serve until 1763, when she was broken up.^[2]