HMS Albany (1745)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Albany.

HMS Albany was a 14-gun sloop launched by Darby of Gosport on 23 March 1745. She measured 270 tons (BM) and was 91 foot long with a breadth of 26 feet. She sailed from Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, for Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, but was captured, with the loss of one British life, on 7 July 1746 by the French frigate Castor in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Albany was completely dismasted by concentrated gunfire on the rigging. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Albany was not renamed by the French, and retired in 1747. ^[3]

Citations

1. Colledge p.25
2. "London, September 16". Gloucester Journal. No. 1272. 23 September 1746. p. 2. Retrieved 7 March 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
3. Roche, Jean-Michel (2013). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la Flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours: Tome I 1671–1870. p. 101.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-281-8.