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Scarborough | 6485 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| How acquired | Purpose built | BWAS-1714 | |
| Shipyard | Sheerness Dockyard | BWAS-1603 | |
| Ship Class | 1719 Establishment 20-Gunner | ||
| Constructor | Richard Stacey | BWAS-1714 | |
| Category | Sixth Rate | B028 | |
| Ship Type | Frigate | ||
| Sailing Rig | Ship Rigged | ||
| Sold | 25.8.1739 | B028 | |
Early 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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