HMS Essex was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1760 at Rotherhithe.
[1] In March 1762 Essex captured three small vessels:[2] Essex was on harbour service from 1777, and was sold out of the service in 1799.
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