HMS Placentia

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Three, and possibly four, vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Placentia, after locations in Newfoundland, including Placentia Bay and the town of Placentia:

HMS Placentia (1775) was a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1775 and wrecked, with the loss of two lives, on 14 September 1775.^[1]
A cutter HMS Placentia apparently served between 1777 and 1779.^[2]
HMS Placentia (1779) was a 14-gun sloop, purchased in 1780 and wrecked on 10 September 1782 on Newfoundland with no survivors.^[3] Earlier that year Lieutenant Charles Anderson had captured two American schooners, Lord Sterling and Penguin, each of eight guns.^[4]
HMS Placentia (1789) was a minimally armed sloop launched in 1789, name vessel of her two-vessel class, that her crew abandoned in a sinking state on 8 May 1794 off Marticot Island, Newfoundland.^[5]

Citations

↑ Hepper (1994), p.49.
↑ "NMM, vessel ID 373438" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol iii. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
↑ Hepper (1994), p.70.
↑ Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal (1783), Vol. 6, p.368.
↑ Hepper (1994), p.76.

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References

Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.

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[1] Hepper (1994), p.49.

[NMM-WH-373438-2] "NMM, vessel ID 373438" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol iii. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.

[3] Hepper (1994), p.70.

[4] Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal (1783), Vol. 6, p.368.

[5] Hepper (1994), p.76.

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