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HMS Greyhound (1741)
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Greyhound
Ordered: 5 December 1740
Builder: Thomas Snelgrove, Limehouse
Laid down: 26 January 1741
Launched: 19 September 1741
Completed: 10 November 1741
Commissioned: September 1741
Decommissioned: January 1768
Out of service: 5 April 1768
Fate: Sold out of service, April 1768
General characteristics
Class & type: 24-gun sixth-rate
Tons burthen: 450 55/94 bm
Length: 108 ft 1 in (32.9 m) (overall)
88 ft 3 in (26.9 m) (keel)
Beam: 31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold: 10 ft 2 in (3.1 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: ship-rigged
Complement: 140 (160 from 1745)
Armament: 20 x 9pdrs (upper deck)
2 x 9pdrs (lower deck)
2 x 3 pdrs (quarterdeck)

HMS Greyhound was a 20-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1740-41 according to the 1733 modifications of the 1719 Establishment, and in service in the West Indies, the Americas and the Caribbean. After extensive service including the single-handed capture of two other ships of equivalent size and armament, Greyhound was found unseaworthy in January 1768 and sold out of service three months later.[1]

References[]

  1. Winfield 2007, p. 253

Bibliography[]

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