HMS Somerset (1748)
70 guns:
- Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs
- Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
HMS Somerset was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 18 July 1748. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Somerset was involved in several notable battles of the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War. She was wrecked in a storm in 1778 when she ran aground on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Read more about HMS Somerset (1748): Seven Years War, American Revolutionary War, Loss, Remembrance
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