HMS Yarmouth was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English

Kingdom of England

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 Royal Navy

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, built for the navy by a private contractor at Harwich

Harwich

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 under the 1690 Programme, and launched in 1695.

She was commissioned in 1695 under Captain James Moodie, and joined Berkeley's

John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton

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 squadron. She sailed to the Mediterranean in 1696. In February 1696 she was under Captain William Whetstone

William Whetstone

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, and in 1697 under Captain William Clevland. In 1702 she was in service under Captain William Prother, serving with Rooke's

George Rooke

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 fleet at Cadiz in 1702 before proceeding to the West Indies. She took part in the Battle of Velez-Malaga on 13 August 1704.

The Yarmouth was broken up in 1707 and rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment

1706 Establishment

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 by John Wicker at his Deptford

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private shipyard, being re-launched on 9 September 1709. She served until 1740, when she was hulked at Portsmouth, being finally broken up in 1769.