HMS Dorsetshire

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dorsetshire, after the traditional county of Dorsetshire:

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HMS <i>Dorsetshire</i> (1757)

HMS Dorsetshire 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, amended in 1754, and launched on 13 December 1757.

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