HMS Albany (1745)
HMS Albany was a 14-gun sloop launched by Darby of Gosport on 23 March 1745. She measured 270 tons (BM) and was 91 foot long with a breadth of 26 feet.[1] She sailed from Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island on 7 July 1746, for Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, but was captured en route on 19 July by the French frigate Castor in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia.[1][2][3] Albany was completely dismasted by concentrated gunfire on the rigging, with the loss of one British life.[4]
Albany was not renamed by the French, and retired in 1747.[4]
Citations
- ^ a b Colledge p.25
- ^ "London, September 18". Newcastle Courant. No. 2753. 20 September 1746. p. 1. Retrieved 8 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "ADM 106/1041/133". London: National Archives. 1747. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
List of men from the Dover on the Albany Sloop which was taken on 19 July 1746
- ^ a b Roche, Jean-Michel (2013). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la Flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours: Tome I 1671–1870. p. 101.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.