The 14 preceding Cumberlands must also be introduced. The first Cumberland served from 1695. to 1718; she was a three-decker battleship of 80 guns, painted blue and gold outside and yellow below the water-line, She thrust herself into engagements with the Dutch and the French and her record issued gloriously. The second ship of the name was launched in 1710, and until 1781 she cruised about the Baltic and the North Sea on the business of King George I, though she never saw fighting. She was similar in her build to the Ara Cumberland, and after 21 years of service she was sold for breaking The thind of the name started hee career in 1789, She was a 66-gua ship, But nearly 100 tons heavier than her predecessor, "Her figure head was the Duke of Cumberland When war broke out with Spain the Cumberland started on a venture: some career. She played arum: portant and exciting part in the Straggle in the Enst between the French and the English for the possession of India, She never turned to her native waters again, Twenty years of hard service and she sank at her anchors near Goa, on the Indian coast about 300 mites south of Bombay, during the night of November 2, 1760, Cumberland the fourth came into service in 1739. She was quite diferent from other great. battle ships. She was a bomb ship used chiefly for bombarding shore fortifications, and the bombs fired weighed ubout 200 Ib, A conaiderable list of bombardments make up her histor; She sustained violent injuries, and in 1742 after ig) three years' service she was broke
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which Were called the backbone of 1iT"oe of the Hovey the old. navy."
She saw. much aggressive service amid the French and Spanish difficulties. After ton years of peace, she had more ware fare, this time the Twenty Years? War' (1793), when she fought alongside Nelson and the Agamemnon for over two years, Her subsequent. engagements make an epic of frst water. She was broken up in 1804 after thirty years hard service, The sixth and seventh ships wars actually named Duchess of Cumberland, as was the eighth. The ninth wasa 29-ton schooner brought into the service in 1803. The tenth was a 179-ton vessel dating from 1803 and known as the Duke of Cumber-
The 11th Cumberland was an East India Company's ship and fought in the famous action between Dance and Linois, the French Admiral, in 1804, The 12th "Cumberland, served from 1807 to 1870. She was larger than any of her predecessors. " She, too, saw the Twenty Years' War drag on, She finally became a convict ship at Sheerness, her name then being changed to Fortitude, and in 1870 she was sold for £2,200, The 13th Cumberland served in the Baltic, and ended her days as a training' ship on the Clyde. She was accidentally burnt at her moorings in 1889,
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