HMS Stirling Castle (1775)
![]() HMS Stirling Castle in 1780 by an unknown artist | |
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Name: | Stirling Castle |
Ordered: | 12 October 1768 |
Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down: | October 1769 |
Launched: | 28 June 1775 |
Fate: | Wrecked, 5 October 1780 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type: | Worcester-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1377 21⁄94 (bm) |
Length: | 159 ft (48 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m) |
Depth of hold: | 19 ft 10 in (6.05 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Armament: |
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HMS Stirling Castle was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 June 1775 at Chatham.[1]
She was wrecked on 5 October 1780 on the Silver Keys, off Cap François, off the coast of Cuba with the loss of most of her crew.[2] As the Massachusetts ship Aurora was sailing from Boston to Port-au-Prince she came upon the wreckage of Stirling Castle and was able to save a midshipman and four seamen.[3]
Citations and references
Citations
- 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p181.
- ↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1247). 6 March 1781.
- ↑ Hepper (1994), p.59.
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