HMS Scarborough was a 20-gun ship built in 1756 which served the Royal Navy until 1780. She had a crew of 160 men.

Service

She was ordered in June 1755 and was built at Blaydes Yard in Kingston-Upon-Hull over a period of around 9 months at a cost of £3400. She was designed by Sir Thomas Slade. She was launched in April 1756 under command of Captain Robert Routh. Destruction du vaisseau le Prudent et capture du Bienfaisant a Louisbourg 1758

Destruction du vaisseau le Prudent et capture du Bienfaisant a Louisbourg 1758

In September 1757 she sailed for

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as part of he Seven Years' War. In May 1758 she captured the American ship Echo off Louisburg and in June took part in the Siege of Louisburg. In 1759 she was posted to Quebec and was involved in the Battle of Quebec under command of Captain John Stott. In 1760 she returned to Louisburg then went north to

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where she took place in the Battle of

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on 8 July, where 4 British ships defeated three French ships, still under command of Stott. She returned to England for som years then set off in August 1762 for America and the

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. In 1765 she underwent a major refit at Deptford and was recommissioned in November 1766 under command of Captain Robert Gregory, taking her to the Leeward Islands in April 1767 staying until 1769. She then had three years of inactivity before a major refit at

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. She was relaunched in June 1774 under command of Captain James Chads who sailed her to Boston (in the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party). In October 1774 she returned to England under command of Captain

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. She stayed only briefly and later in October left

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carrying dispatches to Boston arriving on 3 December. They anchored at Piscataqua River and on

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1774/5 hosted governor John Wentworth in their celebrations. On 1 June, 1777 she captured vessel "St. Barbary", On 21 june "McPherson" off the coast of New England, and on 23 June recaptured "Generous Friend". On 20 October, 1777 she captured "Beverly" off the coast of Nova Scotia. On 12 October, 1777 she, or a ship named Scarboro, captured schooner "Lucy" on the Grand Banks. She remained in America under Barkley until 1779, concerning various issues relating to the Revolutionary War, but was finally paid off in April 1779 when she was fitted with a copper bottom at Chatham at a cost of £4267 (more than her original total cost). She set off to the Leeward Islands under Captain Robert Boyle Nicholas on 22 May 1780. In August 1780 Captain Samuel Hood Walker took command. He was lost with the ship and crew on 5 October 1780 during the Great Hurricane of 1780 off

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in the

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Other Notable Crew

* Alexander Fraser served as acting lieutenant in 1774 under Captain Barkley.

References

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