Gibraltar HMS 1754

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john sefton
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Gibraltar HMS 1754

Post by john sefton » Sat May 27, 2017 9:04 pm

HMS Gibraltar was a 20-gun sixth-rate in service from 1754 to 1773.
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Re: Gibraltar HMS 1754

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:17 pm

Built sixth rate wooden gunship after a design made by Thomas Slade to the lines of the French privateer prize Le TYGRE by the Portsmouth Dry-dock by the Master Shipwright Peirson Lock for the Royal Navy.
29 August 1753 ordered.
11 September 1753 keel laid down.
09 May 1754 launched under the name HMS GIBRALTAR.
Tonnage 430 ton (bm), dim. 32.85 x 9.27 x 2.99m, length of keel 26.83m.
Armament: Upper deck 20 – 9 pdrs.
Crew 160.
10 August 1754 completed.

June 1754 commissioned under command of Richard Spry.
1755 Under command of Captain John Hollwall.
09 May 1755 sailed for America with Boscawen’s squadron; off Ile Bas, France in 1756. Took the privateers Le SAINT-LOUIS on 16 August 1756 and Le GLANEUR on 10 December 1756.
1757 She was under command of Captain Archibald Clevland for convoy duties and cruising.
1758 Sailed under command of Captain William Cleverly with the new Viceroy to Gibraltar and thence to the Mediterranean.
18 August 1759 reported the sighting of the French fleet of Admiral de la Clue-Sabran which was defeated in the Battle of Lagos off Portugal on 18/19 August 1759.
27 September 1759 joined Admiral Hawke’s fleet and sighted 15/16 November 1759 the French fleet.
25 April 1760 sailed for the Mediterranean and together with HMS VALEUR took the French privateer La BELLE ETOILE on 06 April 1762.
October 1763 paid off and underwent repair at Portsmouth from October 1763 till July 1764.
February 1766 recommissioned under command of Captain Richard Braithwaite and fitted out at Portsmouth from February to April 1766.
02 June 1766 sailed for Newfoundland.
1767 Was back in home waters at the Channel station.
12 March 1769 surveyed the damage received when she was driven on the rocks (where?) after she under-went small repairs from March to July 1769 at Plymouth.
June 1769 recommissioned at Plymouth and after fitting out she sailed 23 August 1770 from Plymouth to North America under command of Captain Robert Bond.
February 1771 under command of Captain Sir Thomas Rich.
October 1773 till 18 November 1773 she was broken up at Portsmouth.

Source: British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 by Rif Winfield.
Gibraltar 2017 £3 sg?, scott?

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