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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Captain | Ship ordered=7 September 1739 | Ship builder=Woolwich Dockyard | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=14 April 1743 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Broken up, 1783 | Ship status= | Ship notes=*Participated in:
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Ship class=1733 proposals 70-gun third rate ship of the line | Ship tons burthen=1230 (bm) | 151|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 43|ft|5|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 17|ft|9|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns- Upper gundeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
- QD: 14 × 6-pounder guns
- Fc: 4 × 6-pounder guns
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}} | HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 14 April 1743.[1]In 1760, Captain was reduced to a 64-gun ship. Then in 1777 she was converted to serve as a storeship and renamed Buffalo. Although a storeship, Buffalo shared, with {{HMS|Thetis|1773|2}}, and {{HMS|Alarm|1763|2}}, in the proceeds from {{HMS|Southampton|1757|2}}'s capture of the 12-gun French privateer Comte de Maurepas, on 3 August 1780.[2] In 1781, with 60 guns back on board, although she only had 18 pounders on the lower deck, she participated in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at the Battle of Dogger Bank. [3]{{rp|46}} Buffalo returned to the role of storeship until she was broken up in 1783.[1]Notes1. ^1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 171.
2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=12325|page=1|date=24 August 1782}}
3. ^{{cite book |first=Sir John |last=Ross |title=Memoirs of Admiral de Saumarez Vol 1}}
References{{refbegin}}- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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