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DREADNOUGHT (60) 4th rate Built in 1691, Blackwall.
Broken up in 1748.

  • Rebuilt 1706, hulked at Portsmouth from 1740.
  • 1734 Capt. MEDLEY.
  • 1744 Capt. Hon. Edward BOSCAWEN, cruiser in the Channel. On 29th. April, with the GRAMPUS sloop in company, he captured after a chace of 50 hours, the French frigate MEDEA, Capt. Hoquart, of 26 nine-pounders and 240 men. The prize was carried into Portsmouth. The MEDEA, having being condemned as a legal prize, was then bought by some merchants in June to be converted into a privateer.


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