HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

[1] She had two commanders: Captain Justinian Nutt and Commodore Francis Holburne and had a crew of 350 men.

She served in North America and the Caribbean (based at the Leeward Islands.

[2] Tavistock was converted to serve as a hulk in 1758, and was broken up in Woolwich in 1768.

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