HMS Bridgewater (1740)

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

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

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. 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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