Name (required):

  Expression ^{(Optional mood/title along with your name) Examples: (happy, sad, The Joyful, etc.) help)}

  E-mail address (optional):

* Type your message here:
>Albert > >Accordng to Rif WInfield (British Warships 1712-1792) >the Argyll of 1722 (50) was still in commission in >1748 when she was sunk as a breakwater at Harwich >(13/11/1748). >in 1741 she was In Norris' fleet, taking a privateer >in the Bay of Biscay on 1741/08/09 and continued in >active service until early 1748. > >The other ships you mention >Canterbury broken up to rebuild 1741/04 (out of >commission since April 1740) >Hampton Court was Broken up at Chatham (completed in >November 1741) but was involved in the Cartagena >operations in April and May. >Newark was broken up to rebuild at Chatham (completed >May 1741) but had been out of commission since 1736 > >I have the following ships listed as out of service in >1741 >Name Rate >---------------- ----------------------- >Hampton Court Third Rate >Newark Third Rate >Adventure Fifth Rate (Broken up) >Alderney Unrated Bomb (Hulked) >Anna Storeship (1741-08-28 scuttled of >Jaun Fernandez Island as unservicable) >Galicia Third Rate (Burnt) >Greyhound Sixth Rate (Broken up to Rebuild) >Royal Katherine Second Rate (Broken up to Rebuild) >Kinsale Fifth Rate (Broken up) >Otter Unrated (Wrecked 1741/01/13) > >There may be others as my data base is so far only >complete for ships beginning A to R. > >But there are none of the above could have been >involved. > >Hope this helps > >Cy > > > >>>Hello guys: I have sevrals years research about the >>>ships that was burn by the british admiral verno in >>>his retired of cartagena de indias in april 1741 . >>>In several spanish resources tell that was burn as >>>unservible the captured spanish flagship Galicia 70 >>>guns and other 5 british ships of line (not the >others >>>ships of Blas de Lezo spanish). >>> >>>Can you tell me wich was this ships of line? >>>If not have the names can you estimate the ships very >>>damages with the casualities and with base in this >can >>>know that ships was descomissioned in england on >>>1741-42? >>> >>>Is very important this information because the >british >>>resources only tell that the ships was damaged but >not >>>burn or descomissioned !!! >>>thanks >>>Andres >> >>I don't see any mention in Richmond of abandonment of >>or burning of ships of the line (or any other British >>vessels) at Cartagena. In his list of British losses >>in vol. III, Clowes includes "<i>Galicia</i> (prize)" >>as "Burnt as useless at Cartagena" on April 16 (o.s.), >>1741. He lists no other British ships disposed of in >>this way at Cartagena or anywhere else in 1741. Some >>of Anson's ships were burnt as unserviceable, but they >>were never anywhere near Cartagena, and their >>destruction had nothing to do with Blaz de Lezo's >>defense. >> >>Undoubtedly, some ships were broken up in England in >>the course of the year 1741. I don't think the >>British burned their unserviceable ships when they had >>a chance to take them apart. >> >>I have a list of ships of the line in each belligerent >>navy during the war of the Austrian Succession. As >>far as I know, the following ships were in the British >>navy on January 1, 1741 but not on January 1, 1742, >>and thus were stricken at some time during 1742: >>• Newark, 80 >>• Hampton Court, 70 >>• Canterbury, 60 >>• Argyle, 50 >>Other ships might have been taken out of commission, >>never used at sea again, and disposed of after the >war.

Notice: Copies of your message may remain on this and other systems on internet. Please be respectful.