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| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Swan |
| Ordered | 18 January 1766 |
| Builder | Plymouth Dockyard |
| Laid down | June 1766 |
| Launched | 21 November 1767 |
| Commissioned | February 1768 |
| Fate | Sold September 1814 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Swan |
| Acquired | 1814 by purchase |
| Fate | Broken up c.1841 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Swan-class |
| Tons burthen | 3004⁄94 bm |
| Length |
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| Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Complement | 125 |
| Armament |
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HMS Swan was launched on 21 November 1767 at Plymouth as the lead ship of the 24 ships in the 14-gun Swan-class of ship-sloops built in the 1760s and 1770s. She served during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War. She bore the name HMS Explosion between 1779 and 1783; at the time she was classed as a fireship. She was laid up in 1801 and finally sold in 1814. Swan then became a whaler in the northern whale fishery, sailing out of Kingston-on-Hull. She also made one voyage to the southern whale fishery (1819–1821) and one merchant voyage to Brazil and Hamburg, before returning to the northern whale fishery. She was broken up circa. 1841.