HMS Restoration (1706)
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Name: | HMS Restoration |
Builder: | Allin, Deptford Dockyard |
Launched: | 1 August 1706 |
Fate: | Wrecked, 9 November 1711 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type: | 70-gun third rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1,106 long tons (1,123.7 t) |
Length: | 151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 41 ft (12.5 m) |
Depth of hold: | 17 ft 6 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 Restoration.
HMS Restoration was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 1 August 1706,[1] after the previous Restoration had been lost in the Great Storm of 1703.
This ship also had a premature end when she was wrecked off Leghorn on November 9, 1711.
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- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.