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COLCHESTER
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Built in 1694, Blackwall. Foundered in 1704.
Capt. Edmund D'OYLEY was appointed on the prospect of a rupture with France and sent to the West Indies where he contracted an illness which proved fatal on his return. He died, aged 29, at Bath on 10 May 1703.
Capt. David WAVELL. COLCHESTER foundered at sea and the captain, and most of his crew were lost, on 16 January 1704.