HMS Northumberland (1705)
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HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1705.
Northumberland (left) at the action of 8 May 1744
Hubert de Brienne
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Chef d'escadre Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans was a French Navy officer.
HMS Northumberland (1705)
…1743. Northumberland was captured during the action of 8 May 1744 by the French ships Mars commanded by Étienne Perier and Content commanded by the Comte de Conflans. She was subsequently taken into the French navy as Northumberland, before being renamed Atlas in 1766. She sank in February 1781 off the coast of…
The Battle of Quiberon Bay, which ended Conflans' military career