Jump to content

HMS Bridgewater (1740)

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by CommonsDelinker (talk | contribs) at 03:57, 11 December 2017 (Replacing British-White-Ensign-1707.svg with File:Naval_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_(1707-1800).svg (by CommonsDelinker because: File renamed: Standard naming convention with full dates of use.).). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bridgewater.
History
Royal Navy Ensign (1707-1801)Great Britain
NameHMS Bridgewater
Ordered10 June 1740
BuilderJohn Pearson, King's Lynn
Laid down22 January 1740
Launched11 December 1740
Completed5 April 1741
CommissionedJuly 1740
FateWrecked in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, 18 September 1743
General characteristics
Displacement436 35⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 106 ft 3 in (32.39 m) (gundeck)
  • 87 ft 6 in (26.67 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 7.5 in (9.335 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement140
Armament
  • 20 guns comprising
  • Gun deck: 20 × 9-pounder cannon

HMS Bridgewater was a sixth-rate 20-gun ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1740 and wrecked in 1743.

She was commissioned in August 1740 under Captain Robert Pett for service in the North Sea and English Channel.[1] In December 1741 Bridgewater was assigned to coastal duties off Newfoundland under Captain Frederick Rogers.

On Christmas Day 1742 she engaged and captured an 18-gun privateer, Santa Rita, off the Scilly Isles. A month later she received her third captain, William Fielding, and returned to her Newfoundland patrol.[1]

Bridgewater was wrecked in St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland on 18 September 1743.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Winfield 2007, p.252

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.
Stub icon

This article about a specific naval ship or boat of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Bridgewater_(1740)&oldid=814824286"