HMS America (1757)
HMS America was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built for service during the Seven Years' War against France and Spain. Commissioned in 1757, America was assigned to the British fleets blockading French ports in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and played an active role in the Battle of Lagos in 1759. After a refit in 1760, she was sailed to the East Indies for combat against Spanish forces in the Philippines. America was returned to England at the end of the war, and was broken up in 1771.
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HMS America (1757)
HMS America was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built for service during the Seven Years' War against France and Spain. Commissioned in 1757, America was assigned to the British fleets blockading French ports in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and played an active role in the Battle of Lagos in 1759. After a refit in 1760, she was sailed to the East Indies for combat against Spanish forces in the Philippines. America was returned to England at the end of the war, and was broken up in 1771.
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HMS America was a 60-gun fourt ...... ar, and was broken up in 1771.
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1755-11-24
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1.28016e+1
ship launched
1757-05-21
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Broken up atPlymouth Dockyard, 1771
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"We came up with a French Snow ...... half an hour, and then sunk."
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Ship armament
*60 guns:
*Gundeck: 24 × 24-po ...... rs
*Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounders
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Ship builder
Wells & Stanton, Rotherhithe
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Ship commissioned
April 1757
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Ship decommissioned
August 1764
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Ship fate
Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard, 1771
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Battle of Lagos, 1759
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Ship laid down
December 1755
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1757-05-21
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HMS America
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Ship ordered
1755-11-24
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HMS America was a 60-gun fourt ...... ar, and was broken up in 1771.
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