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Line 1: {{short description\|Ship of the line of the Royal Navy}} {{~~otherships~~other ships\|HMS Dreadnought}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English\|date=August 2017}} {\|{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image Line 24 ⟶ 28: \|Ship honours= \|Ship captured= \|Ship fate=Foundered October 1690 ~~\|Ship status=~~ \|Ship notes= }} Line 46 ⟶ 49: '''HMS ''Dreadnought''''' was a 52-gun [[third-rate]] ship of the line, in service with the [[Royal Navy]] from 1660 to 1690. The ship was originally launched in 1654 under the name '''''Torrington''''' for the navy of the [[Commonwealth of England]]. Her builder was shipwright Henry Johnson at [[Blackwall Yard]], [[London]]. She was named for the Parliamentarian victory at the [[Battle of Torrington]] in 1646. She was renamed ''Dreadnought'' after [[Stuart Restoration\|the Restoration]] in 1660. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 62 guns.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p159" /> After an active career in both the [[Second Dutch War]] and [[Third Dutch War]], ''Dreadnought'' foundered at sea in October 1690.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p159" /> Line 57 ⟶ 60: ==References== {{refbegin}} Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line -– Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN \|0-85177-252-8}}. Winfield, Rif (2009) ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates.'' Seaforth Publishing. {{ISBN \|978-1-84832-040-6}}. {{refend}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dreadnought (1654)}} [[Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy]] [[Category:~~Blackwall~~Ships ~~Yard-~~built ~~ships~~by the Blackwall Yard]] [[Category:Shipwrecks]] [[Category:1650s ships]] [[Category:Maritime incidents in 1690]] [[Category:Speaker-class ships of the line]]