HMS Portland was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, launched at Woolwich Dockyard

Woolwich Dockyard

Woolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship Henri Grâce à Dieu , the largest ship of its day....

 on 28 March 1693.

She was rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment

1719 Establishment

The 1719 Establishment was the first formal 'Establishment' laid down to govern the construction of all ships built or rebuilt down to those of 20 carriage guns, whether in the Royal Dockyards or by commercial contractors...

 at Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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, and was relaunched on 25 February 1723.

On 17 March 1709, Portland recaptured Coventry

HMS Coventry (1695)

HMS Coventry was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1695.The French 54-gun Auguste, together with the 54-gun Jason, captured Coventry in September 1704....

, which the 54-gun Auguste

HMS Auguste (1705)

HMS Auguste was the French 54-gun Auguste built in Brest in 1704 that the British captured in 1705. In her brief French service she captured two major British men of war. She was wrecked in 1716.-French service:...

and the 54-gun Jason (1704) had captured in September 1704.

Portland was broken up in 1743.