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HMS Dartmouth (1655)
&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Dartmouth_(1655).jpg) A fifth-rate warship being refitted, sketched by Willem van de Velde the Younger, believed to be Dartmouth
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Dartmouth |
| Ordered | 28 December 1654 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Cost | £1,693-5-0d |
| Launched | 22 September 1655 |
| Commissioned | 1655 |
| Fate | Wrecked 9 October 1690 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | 22-gun fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen | 260.7 tons bm |
| Length | 80 ft (24.4 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 24 ft 9 in (7.5 m) |
| Depth of hold | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Dartmouth was a small frigate or fifth-rate ship, one of six ordered by the English Council of State on 28 December 1654, and built in 1655.
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