HMS '' Salisbury '' was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , built at Chatham Dockyard to the dimensions of the 1706 Establishment , and launched on 3 July 1707 . In autumn of 1707 , she brought the body of admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell ( who had been killed in a disastrous shipwreck in the Isles of Scilly ) from St Mary 's to Plymouth prior to his burial in Westminster Abbey
disastrous shipwreck in the Isles of Scilly
Scilly naval disaster of 1707
HMS Salisbury (1707)