HMS Lion (1709 hoy)
HMS Lion (or Lyon) was a stores hoy launched in 1709. She was wrecked at Port Isaac on 26 August 1752.[1]
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Name: | HMS Lion (or Lyon) |
Builder: | Deptford Dockyard (M/Shipwright Joseph Allin) |
Launched: | April 1709 |
Fate: | Wrecked 1752 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type: | Hoy |
Tonnage: | 107 92⁄94 (bm) |
Length: |
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Beam: | 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m) |
Depth of hold: | 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | sloop |
Armament: | 4 x 4-pounder guns + 4 x swivel guns |
Lion was under the command of Samuel Wakerel, master. All of her crew was saved, as was some of her cargo of lumber.[2]
Notes
- Winfield (2008), pp.367.
- Hepper (1994), p. 39.
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References
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.
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