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

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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  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p166.

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