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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Captain was a
70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at
Woolwich Dockyard in 1678. She underwent her first rebuild at Portsmouth
Dockyard, where she was reconstructed as a 70-gun third rate built to
the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 July 1708. Her second
rebuild also took place at Portsmouth, from where she was relaunched on
21 May 1722 as a 70-gun third rate of the 1719 Establishment.