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
NameHMS Bridgewater
Ordered10 June 1740
BuilderJohn Pearson, King's Lynn
Laid down22 January 1740
Launched11 December 1740
Completed5 April 1741
CommissionedJuly 1740
FateWrecked in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, 18 September 1743
General characteristics
Tons burthen436 35⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 106 ft 3 in (32.39 m) (gundeck)
  • 87 ft 6 in (26.67 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 7.5 in (9.335 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement140
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. 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.

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

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