History | |
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France | |
Launched | 1774 |
Captured | c.1781 |
Great Britain | |
Name | Sally |
Acquired | 1782 by purchase of a prize |
Renamed | Britannia (1787) |
Fate | Wrecked 1793 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 177, or 200[1] (bm) |
Armament | 4 × 3-pounder guns + 2 × 9-pounder carronades[1] |
Britannia was built in France in 1774. The British captured her in 1781 and she began sailing under the name Sally, first as a transport and then as a West Indiaman. Liverpool merchants purchased her and she became Britannia in 1787. She then sailed to the Baltic and Russia. She was wrecked in 1793.