HMS Bristol was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 8 May 1711.
On 22 November 1742 Bristol was ordered to be dismantled for rebuilding. Unlike the vast majority of ships of the line rebuilt during the Establishment era, Bristol was not reconstructed according to the establishment in effect at the time (in this case, the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment). She shared her dimensions with later, newly-built Rochester. Bristol was relaunched on 9 July 1746.
Bristol was broken up in 1768.
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