74 gun ship DRAKE of 1808

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AvM
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74 gun ship DRAKE of 1808

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Salisbury and Winchester Journal - Monday 29 August 1808

A seventv-four gun ship was launched yesterday from Mestaer's Dock, at Deptford. She was christened " The Drake", in the presence the Princess of Wales, the Duchess Brunswick, Lord Hood, Mr. Angerstein, Mr. Tlicrnton, &c. She went the in good style, and it was the whole a very fine launch.
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Re: 74 gun ship DRAKE of 1808

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The 'Blake' 74 was launched at Deptford on 23rd August 1808.

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Re: 74 gun ship DRAKE of 1808

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Ok!
That was small quiz :)

Now the questions

Was there "Mestaer's Dock" in Deptford?

There is a correspondence that Perter E. Mestaer want to built c1806 a 74 gun ship,but it was refused as the commision thought his dock is too short.

Accordingly to late David Lyon she was started as "Bombay"?

Wha a new ship was already after 8 years slod to be break up?

Kentish Gazette - Friday 26 August 1808
On Tuesday a flue called Blake, was launched at Depfford. The Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Brunswick, Lord Mulgrave, and several other persons of fashion were present. The ship went off twenty minutes before three, in the grandest stile, amidst the acclamations of the by-standers. The Blake is a fine 74, of the largest class; the figure on the head is bust of the brave Admiral, crowned with a wreath of laurel, and on her stern, beautifully carved and coloured, is a line of battle ship, top-masts all gone, engaging a large castle of great force. She is built of foreign oak.
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