HMS Swan (1767)
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Class and type: | Swan class ship sloop |
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 |
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Tons burthen: | 300 4⁄94 bm |
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Beam: | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) |
Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
Complement: | 125 |
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HMS Swan was the lead ship in the 14-gun Swan class of ship sloops, to which design 25 vessels were built in the 1760s and 1770s; she was launched on 21 November 1767. She bore the name HMS Explosion between 1779 and 1783 whilst being used as a fireship. She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War before being laid up in 1801; she was sold for disposal in 1814.
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- Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.