HMS Mediator (1745)

History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Mediator
Laid down	1741
Launched	1741
Acquired	1745 at Antigua
Commissioned	18 March 1745
In service	1745
Stricken	3 June 1745
Reinstated	4 June 1745
Fate	Foundered at Ostend, 29 July 1745
General characteristics
Class and type	sloop of war
Tons burthen	104 74⁄94 bm
Length	61 ft 4 in (18.7 m) (gundeck) 44 ft 0 in (13.4 m) (keel)
Beam	21 ft 2 in (6.5 m)
Sail plan	single-masted, sloop-rigged
Complement	80
Armament	10 × 4-pdrs 18 × 1⁄2-pounder swivel guns

HMS Mediator was a 10-gun single-masted sloop of war of the Royal Navy, in service in American in 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession. Built in Chesapeake Bay in 1741, she was purchased by the Navy four years later and sailed to Portsmouth for fitting out by Peirson Lock.^[1]

She was captured by a French privateer in June 1745, but recaptured the following day.^[2]

Mediator sprang a leak and foundered in Ostend harbor on 29 July 1745.^[2]