DREADNOUGHT
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Built in 1691, Blackwall. Broken up in 1748. |
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- 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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