Three ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Burlington'': * was a 48-gun

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launched in 1695 and broken up in 1733. * HMS ''Burlington'' was a 42-gun

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built as HMS ''Vittoria'' but launched in 1814 as . She was renamed ''Burlington'' later that year, and put up for sale in 1833. * HMS ''Burlington'' was a collier built in 1921 for the

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. In 1940 the Admiralty commissioned her as HMS ''Burlington'' to destroy

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s. She was renamed ''Soothsayer'' and then ''Fairfax''. Under her final name she served as a repair ship. She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1945.

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