Two ships of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ...

have borne the name HMS ''Lenox'': * was a 70-gun

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the thir ...

launched in 1678. She was rebuilt in 1701, and again in 1723, before being sunk as a breakwater in 1756. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1758. She was sunk as a breakwater in 1784, before being raised and broken up in 1789.

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