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HMS Gibraltar (1780) (4th)
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This the fourth ship to carry the name HMS Gibraltar was a
second rate, 80-gun, ship-of-the-line. Originally Spanish (Fenix), captured 16-Mar-1780, 179ft long, 53ft 6in wide and of 2,185 tons builders measurement. Used as a powder hulk from Dec-1813. Used as a Lazaretto, (an accommodation ship to quarantine men suffering from suspected or actual infectious disease), from Sep-1824. Broken up Nov-1836. Won the Battle Honours: First of June 1784, Egypt 1801 and Basque Roads 1809.
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