HMS Drake (1741)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Drake.
HMS Drake was an 8-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1741 as the first of three Drake-class sloops constructed for convoy duty during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins' Ear from 1739 to 1742. After limited service off the Channel Islands, she was sailed to Gibraltar, where she was wrecked in 1742 while under the temporary command of her first lieutenant.
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Name | HMS Drake |
Ordered | 24 June 1740 |
Builder | Thomas West, Wapping |
Laid down | 25 September 1740 |
Launched | 19 February 1741 |
Completed | 4 April 1741 at Deptford Dockyard |
Commissioned | February 1741 |
Out of service | 22 November 1742 |
Fate | Wrecked in Gibraltar harbour |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 8-gun Drake-class snow sloop |
Tons burthen | 206 43⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 23 ft 9.25 in (7.2 m) |
Draught | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Snow-rigged sloop |
Complement | 80 |
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