HMS Gibraltar Prize

NameGlaneur^[1]

BuilderNantes

CapturedDecember 1756^[2]

NameHMS Gibraltar Prize

History




France
Name	Glaneur^[1]
Builder	Nantes
Captured	December 1756^[2]


Great Britain
Name	HMS Gibraltar Prize
Acquired	February 1757^[1]
Decommissioned	22 January 1761^[1]
Fate	Sold 22 January 1761^[1]


General characteristics
Tons burthen	11772⁄94 (bm)^[2]
Length	63 ft 10 in (19.5 m) (overall); 59 ft 1 in (18.01 m) (keel)^[2]
Beam	18 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.7 m)^[2]
Depth of hold	8 ft 2 in (2.5 m)^[2]
Complement	100^[3]^[4] Later 80^[5]
Armament	16 guns under French service^[3] 14, later 12 × 6-pounder guns + 12 × 1⁄2-pounder swivels under British service^[2]^[6] 8 guns on 8 May 1757^[7]

HMS Gibraltar Prize, also known as HMS Gibraltar's Prize, was a sloop of the Royal Navy. She began life as the French privateer schooner Glaneur, but HMS Gibraltar captured her on 10 December 1756,^[2] or February or March 1757; prize money was paid on 3 January 1758.^[8] The Admiralty purchased her on 12 February 1757 for £795 9s and the Royal Navy took her into service under the name Gibraltar's Prize.^[9] The Admiralty sold her in 1761.

Fate

References

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. London: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781844157006.
1 2 Beatston, Robert (1790). Naval and military memoirs of Great Britain: from the year 1727, to the present time. J. Strachan of No. 67, Stand, and P. Hill, Edinburgh. p. 102.
↑ Schomberg, Isaac (1802). Naval Chronology. C Roworth, Bell Yard, Fleet Street. p. 29.
↑ The British Colonial Library. 1837. p. 80.
1 2 3 Beatston, Robert (1790). Appendix to Naval and military memoirs of Great Britain: from the year 1727, to the present time. J. Strachan of No. 67, Stand, and P. Hill, Edinburgh. p. 75.
↑ Fitzgerald, John (1783). The Cork remembrancer: being an historical register containing a chronological account of all the remarkable battles, sieges, conspiracies (et al.) that have happened since the creation to the present year, 1783, particularly for England and Ireland, and more especially for the City of Cork. Cork: J Sullivan, near the Exchange. p. 170.
↑ "No. 10063". The London Gazette. 20 December 1760. p. 5.
↑ "NMM, vessel ID 367511" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol i. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
↑ Charnock, John (1798). Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain from the year 1660 to the present time. R Faulder, Bond Street. p. 342.
↑ "Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth". The London Chronicle. 22 February 1757. pp. 186, Vol. 2. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
↑ Martin, Benjamin (1759). Miscellaneous correspondence, containing a variety of subjects, relative to natural and civil history, geography, mathematics, poetry, memoirs of monthly occurrences, catalogues of new books... W. Owen, and the author. p. 730.

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