HMS Chatham (1691) explained

HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 October 1691 at Chatham Dockyard.

In 1705 she captured the French 60-gun Auguste, built in Brest in 1704, which the British took into service as .

She underwent a rebuild according to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford in 1721.

Fate

Chatham served until 1749, when she was sunk as a breakwater.

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