Two ships of the

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

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launched in 1678. She was rebuilt in 1701, and again in 1723, before being sunk as a

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in Sheerness 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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