HMS Northumberland (1679)

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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Northumberland.

HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Bristol in 1679.[1] She fought in the War of the Grand Alliance.

In 1702, she was rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard, though she was lost with all hands on the Goodwin Sands in the Great Storm of the following year.[2] Captain Greenway was among the 220 men (including 24 marines) who drowned. The wreck has been designated as a protected archaeological site under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 since 1981.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p162.
  2. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p167.

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