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Scarborough (1740 EIC ship) HMS Success (1740) W. HMS Winchelsea (1740) This page was last edited on 10 April 2022, at 08:45 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
1740 ships (12 P) 1741 ships (19 P) 1742 ships (9 P) 1743 ships ... 1748 ships (11 P) 1749 ships (18 P) Pages in category "1740s ships" The following 5 pages are in ...
The list of ship launches in 1740 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1740. Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes 7 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1740 Ship State Description Britannia Great Britain: The ship foundered off Jamaica. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London. [12] St Joseph Great Britain: The snow sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean 500 leagues (1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km)) west of Land's End, Cornwall, and was abandoned. Her crew were ...
Although several private journals of the voyage had been published, the official version of events was published in London 1748, as A Voyage Round the World in 1740-4 by George Anson Esq, now Lord Anson, Commander-in-Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships Sent upon an Expedition to the South Seas Compiled from his Papers and Materials by ...
Scarborough was an East Indiaman launched in December 1740 that performed four trips to India and China for the British East India Company (EIC). She is most famous for giving her name to Scarborough Shoal (or Scarborough Reef), which she discovered by grounding there on 12 September 1748.
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
Historian Francis Grose later writes that Boscawen had brought the largest fleet "ever seen together in the East Indies", with nine ships of the line, two frigates, a sloop, and two tenders" [127] and 14 ships of the British East India Company. Altogether, Boscawen has 3,580 sailors under his command.