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HMS Cambridge (1666)

HMS Cambridge was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Deptford Dockyard.

On 14 March 1674, Cambridge, captained by Arthur Herbert (later 1st Earl of Torrington) along with and captured the Dutch East Indiaman Wapen van Rotterdam in the Battle of Ronas Voe, as part of the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

Cambridge was wrecked in 1694.

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References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .