HMS Albany (1745)
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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]