Cornwall had been launched in 1692 and rebuilt in 1726 as an eighty-gun third-rate under the 1719 Establishment. Her battery ranged from thirty-two-pounders on the lower deck to lighter guns above, and her career also included Barfleur and La Hogue. Lennox was even older, dating from 1678 before a 1723 rebuild as a seventy-gun third-rate; she fought at Málaga and ended her seventy-eight-year career as a breakwater in 1756. Together they show how rebuilding let the Royal Navy retain experienced hulls for many decades while updating their dimensions and armament to a common establishment.
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Cornwall and Lennox as rebuilt veterans
The two heaviest British ships were old hulls renewed under the 1719 Establishment, combining long service with substantial gun batteries.