HMS Vulture (1776)
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| Class and type: | Swan class ship sloop |
| Name: | HMS Vulture |
| Ordered: | 30 October 1775 |
| Builder: | John and William Wells, Deptford |
| Laid down: | November 1775 |
| Launched: | 18 March 1776 |
| Commissioned: | April 1776 |
| Fate: | Sold August 1802 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 304 58⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 26 ft 10.75 in (8.2 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 11 in (3.94 m) |
| Complement: | 125 |
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HMS Vulture was a 14 to 16-gun ship sloop of the Swan class, launched for the Royal Navy on 18 March 1776. She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War, before the Navy sold her in 1802. Vulture is perhaps best known for being the warship to which Benedict Arnold fled on the Hudson River in 1780 after unsuccessfully trying to betray the Continental Army's fortress at West Point, New York to the British.
Fate
The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the "Vulture, 304 Tons, laying at Portsmouth" for sale on 11 August 1802.[1]
Notes, citations, and references
- Notes
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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.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15503. p. 818. 3 August 1802.
