&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Alarm_(1758).jpg) Alarm conducting a Spanish prize into Gibraltar
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Alarm |
| Builder | Barnard, Harwich |
| Launched | 19 September 1758 |
| Fate | Broken up September 1812 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Niger-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen | 683 bm |
| Length | 125 ft (38 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Alarm was a 32-gun fifth-rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the first Royal Navy ship to bear this name. She was built at King's Yard in Harwich by John Barnard.[1]
Copper-sheathed in 1761, she was the first ship in the Royal Navy to have a fully copper-sheathed hull.[2][3]
- ^ "John Barnard (1705-1784)".
- ^ Copper sheathing, Global Security.
- ^ Oldcopper.com Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine