In 1707 '' Lenox '' was part of the fleet commanded by Sir Cloudesley Shovel , a substantial part of which was wrecked off the Scilly Isles . '' Lenox '' herself was undamaged and was able to return to Portmsouth after the disaster . On 2 May 1721 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Chatham as a 70-gun third rate to the 1719 Establishment . She was relaunched on 19 September 1723 and served until 1756 , when she was sunk as a breakwater
wrecked off the Scilly Isles
Scilly naval disaster of 1707
HMS Lenox (1678)