HMS Garland (1748)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Garland and Garland (ship).

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Garland
Ordered30 November 1744
BuilderJohn Poole, Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down18 November 1745
Launched13 August 1748
FateSold on 2 December 1783
Great Britain
NameGarland
Acquiredc.1784 by purchase
FateWrecked 24 April 1792
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeGarland-class frigate
Tons burthen500,[2] or 50834⁄94, or 525[3] (bm)
Length
  • Gundeck:113 ft 0 in (34.4 m)
  • Keel:93 ft 4 in (28.4 m)
Beam32 ft 0 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 0 in (3.4 m)
Complement
  • Frigate:160
  • Slaver:50–55
Armament
  • Gundeck: 20 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 3-pounder guns

HMS Garland was a frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness in 1748. She had an apparently uneventful career in the Royal Navy, not being listed as participating in engagements or battles. She did capture some French and American merchant vessels. Her most important capture in 1782, was that of the privateer Fair American, which had in some two years captured over 40 British vessels. The Navy sold her in 1783 and she became a slave ship, making six full voyages in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was wrecked as she started for home having delivered the captives from her seventh voyage.

  1. ^ Winfield (2007), p. 256.
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