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Scarborough | 6485 | ||
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Nominal Guns | 20 | B028 | |
Nationality | Great Britain | ||
Operator | Royal Navy | ||
Previously | British Fifth Rate ship 'Scarborough' (1711) (32) | ||
Ordered | 11.10.1720 | B028 | |
Keel Laid Down | 21.10.1720 | B028 | |
Launched | 19.7.1722 | BWAS-1714 | |
First Commissioned | 2.1724 | B028 | |
How acquired | Purpose built | BWAS-1714 | |
Shipyard | Sheerness Dockyard - Sheerness | BWAS-1603 | |
Ship Class | 1719 Establishment 20-Gunner | B028 | |
Constructor | Richard Stacey | BWAS-1714 | |
Category | Sixth Rate | B028 | |
Ship Type | Frigate | B028 | |
Sailing Rig | Ship Rigged | B028 | |
Sold | 25.8.1739 | B028 |
Paid off
ADM 33Early in 1733, a fleet of British ships under escort of the Scarborough, 20, Captain Thomas Durell, was loading salt at the Tortugas, when there came down on it two Spanish men-of-war, one of sixty, and the other of seventy guns. [probably these were much smaller Guarda-Costas] Four of the merchantmen, viz., the Catherine, Two Sisters, Hopewell, and Three Brothers, were taken at the outset before the Scarborough could cover her convoy; but after that she managed to engage the attention of the Spaniards so well that the rest of the salt ships made good their escape.
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