HMS Lincoln was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, one of five such ships authorised on 16 November 1693 (three to be built in different Royal Dockyards and two to be built by commercial contract. The Lincoln was built by Master Shipwright Joseph Lawewence at Woolwich Dockyard and was launched on 19 September 1695.Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603-1714, p.134.
Lincoln disappeared in the North Sea on 29 January 1703, after sailing from Great Yarmouth under the command of Captain Henry Middleton, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands in a storm.Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603-1714, p.134.David J. Hepper, British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650-1859 (Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, East Sussex, 1994) .
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