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Line 10: \|Ship name=''Torrington'' \|Ship ordered=December 1652 \|Ship builder=Henry Johnson, [[Blackwall Yard]] \|Ship laid down= \|Ship launched=early 1654 Line 45: {{otherships\|HMS Dreadnought}} '''''Torrington''''' was a 52-gun [[Third rate]] ship of the line, built under the 1652 Programme for the navy of the [[Commonwealth of England]] by Henry Johnson at [[Blackwall Yard]], [[London~~\|Blackwall~~]], and launched in 1654. She was named for the Parliamentarian victory at the [[Battle of Torrington]] in 1646. After [[the Restoration]] in 1660, she was renamed '''HMS ''Dreadnought'''''. 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]], the ''Dreadnought'' foundered at sea in October 1690.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p159" /> Line 60: [[Category:Royal Navy ships of the line]] [[Category:Ships of the line of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Blackwall Yard-built ships]] [[Category:Shipwrecks]] [[Category:1650s ships]]

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