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Dreadnought, HMS

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Name: Dreadnought, HMS
Class: 1733 Establishment 60-Gunner, fourth rate
Type: ship of the line
Builder: Wells, Richard
When launched (Date built): 1742
Place built: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Lewisham, Deptford

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58 guns; sold 1784; refitted as a 60 gun fourth rate ship of the line in 1745; served in Forrest's Action 1757 under Captain Maurice Suckling

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To Capt. Forrest Commander of His Majesty's Ship Augusta, Capt. Suckling of ye Dreadnought, and Capt. Langdon of the Edinburgh. This Representation of the Remarkable and Gallant Action between them and a Squadron of French Ships of War On ye Oct. 1757 off Cape Francois, in which the French were Defeated & Retir'd

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