HMAT Supply (1759)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Supply.

Replica of HMAT Supply in Sydney Harbour in 1938
History
Royal Navy Ensign (1707–1801)Great Britain
NameHMAT Supply
Ordered4 April 1759
BuilderHenry Bird, Rotherhithe
Laid down1 May 1759
Launched5 October 1759
Commissioned17 October 1759
Decommissioned21 April 1792
Out of service17 July 1792
FateSold out of Navy service for £600
Great Britain
NameThomas and Nancy
Acquired1792 by purchase for £600
FateLast listed in 1806
General characteristics
Class and type
  • Yard Craft (1759-86)
  • Armed Tender (1786-92)
Tons burthen17476⁄94 or 186[1] (bm)
Length
  • 79 ft 4 in (24.2 m) overall
  • 64 ft 11 in (19.8 m) (keel)
Beam22 ft 6 in (6.9 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 6 in (3.5 m)
PropulsionSail
Complement
  • 14 as yard craft (1759-86)
  • 55 as armed tender (1786-92)
Armament
  • As yard craft: 4 × 3-pounder guns + 6 × 1⁄2-pounder swivels
  • As armed tender: 4 × 3-pounder guns, 4 × 12-pounder carronades
Lt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Commander of HMAT Supply
Lt. David Blackburn, Master of HMAT Supply

Launched in 1759, the third Supply was a Royal Navy armed tender that played an important part in the foundation of the Colony of New South Wales.[2] The Navy sold her in 1792. She then served commercially until about 1806.

HMAT Supply (1759) is not to be confused with the replacement vessel HMS Supply (1793), a 10-gun storeship, of 388 tons (bm), originally the American mercantile New Brunswick, which the Admiralty purchased in 1793 as an armed vessel for the colony at Port Jackson and was broken up there in 1806.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference RS1806 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "H.M.S. SUPPLY". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 23 May 1927. p. 12. Retrieved 24 January 2013.