HMS Bridgewater (1740)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bridgewater.
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Bridgewater
Ordered: 10 June 1740
Builder: John Pearson, King's Lynn
Laid down: 22 January 1740
Launched: 11 December 1740
Completed: 5 April 1741
Commissioned: July 1740
Fate: Wrecked in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, 18 September 1743
General characteristics
Displacement: 436  35⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 106 ft 3 in (32.39 m) (gundeck)
  • 87 ft 6 in (26.67 m) (keel)
Beam: 30 ft 7.5 in (9.335 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 140
Armament:
  • 20 guns comprising
  • Gun deck: 20 × 9-pounder cannon

HMS Bridgewater was a sixth-rate 20-gun ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1740 and wrecked in 1743.

She was commissioned in August 1740 under Captain Robert Pett for service in the North Sea and English Channel.[1] In December 1741 Bridgewater was assigned to coastal duties off Newfoundland under Captain Frederick Rogers.

On Christmas Day 1742 she engaged and captured an 18-gun privateer, Santa Rita, off the Scilly Isles. A month later she received her third captain, William Fielding, and returned to her Newfoundland patrol.[1]

Bridgewater was wrecked in St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland on 18 September 1743.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield 2007, p.252

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006. 
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