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HMS Captain (1825) (5th)
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This the fifth ship to carry the name HMS Captain was a receiving
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Originally HMS Royal Sovereign, a 1st Rate 100-gun ship-of-the-line. Construction began in January 1774 and after spending twelve and a half years on the stocks she was finally launched on 4-Sep-1786, completed and sailed 26-Aug-1790. She was of 2,175 tons builders measurement, 184ft long and 52ft wide. Fought at Trafalgar and spent 1806 repairing the damage received. (See: Fleets after the Battle.) On 17-May-1825 re-named HMS Captain, and converted to a Receiving Ship at Plymouth. Broken up at Plymouth, August 1841.
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