HMS Cumberland (1710)

HMS Cumberland was a three-deck 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Joseph Allin the elder at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 27 December 1710.

[1] On 4 September 1733 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment.

[2] Cumberland sank while anchored off the Indian port of Goa on the night of 2 November 1760.

Her captain, Robert Kirk, faced a court martial for the loss of his ship, but was acquitted.

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Cumberland , ( George Pocock ) at the Capture of Geriah , February 1756