HMS Lenox (1678)

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Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Lenox
Builder:	John Shish, Deptford Dockyard
Launched:	1678
Fate:	Sunk as a breakwater, 1756
General characteristics as built^[1]
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,096 long tons (1,113.6 t)
Length:	151 ft 6 in (46.2 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	39 ft 8 in (12.1 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1701 rebuild^[2]
Class and type:	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,089 long tons (1,106.5 t)
Length:	152 ft 7.5 in (46.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	40 ft 3.5 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 1 in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	70 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1723 rebuild^[3]
Class and type:	1719 Establishment 70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1,128 long tons (1,146.1 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 Lenox.

HMS Lenox was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 18 April 1678.^[1]

She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1701, remaining as a 70-gun third rate.^[2] On 2 May 1721 Lenox was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Chatham as a 70-gun third rate to the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 19 September 1723.^[3]

Lenox served until 1756, when she was sunk as a breakwater.^[3]