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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=England | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Colchester | Ship ordered=1693 | Ship builder=Johnson, Blackwall Yard | Ship original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1694 | 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=Foundered in Whitesand Bay, Cornwall, 1704 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Ship class=50-gun fourth rate ship of the line | Ship tons burthen=696 | 131|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 34|ft|3|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 13|ft|7|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=50 guns of various weights of shot | Ship notes=
}} | HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1694.[1] She foundered at Whitesand Bay, Sennen Cove on 16 January 1704 with the loss of approximately one hundred lives.[2]Notes1. ^1 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 164.
2. ^{{cite book|last=Larn|first=Richard|title=Shipwreck Index of the British Isles|year=1997|publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping|location=London|author2=Larn, Bridget}}
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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