HMS Scipio was a
64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22
October 1782 at Deptford
.
She was broken up in
1798.
Notable people who sailed on her include
Matthew Flinders,
Francis Laforey,
John Nicholson Inglefield and
Edward Thornbrough.
Notes
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The
development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime
Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.