HMS Hawk (1741)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hawk.
HMS Hawk was an eight-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, the second of three Drake class sloops constructed during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins' Ear. Launched in 1741, her principal service was as convoy escort and patrol in the Irish Sea. She was broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1747.
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Name | HMS Hawk |
Ordered | 25 August 1740 |
Builder | Grevill & Whetstone, Limehouse |
Laid down | 20 October 1740 |
Launched | 10 March 1741 |
Completed | 26 April 1741 at Deptford Dockyard |
Commissioned | May 1741 |
Out of service | October 1747 |
Fate | Broken up, Deptford Dockyard |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 8-gun Drake-class snow-rigged sloop |
Tons burthen | 205 76⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 23 ft 8.75 in (7.2 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft 6.5 in (2.9 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan | Snow-rigged sloop |
Complement | 80 |
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