HMS Gibraltar Prize explained
HMS Gibraltar Prize, also known as
HMS Gibraltar's Prize, was a
sloop of the
Royal Navy. She began life as the French
privateer schooner Glaneur, but captured her on 10 December 1756,
[1] or February or March 1757; prize money was paid on 3 January 1758. The Admiralty purchased her on 12 February 1757 for
£795 9
s and the Royal Navy took her into service under the name
Gibraltar's Prize.
[2] The Admiralty sold her in 1761.
Service
Gibraltars Prize was commissioned the day after her purchase. She then was reclassified in March 1757 as an unrated tender.[1]
On 16 April 1757, she sailed to North America from the Cove of Cork along with a fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Francis Holburne, for Halifax in Canada. There she was left behind with several other ships – the Windsor, the Arc-En-Ciel, the Nightingale, the Speedwell and the bomb-vessel Grenado – to defend the city of Halifax, as a fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Holburne left to reconnoitre Louisbourg. She had 12 guns at the time.
Her captain at the time was John Stott, who was previously master of . He was promoted to lieutenant and given command of Gibraltar Prize, and then further promoted to commander on 14 June 1757, replacing the previous commander, Lieutenant Schomberg.[3] [4] [5]
By January 1758, the command had changed again: this time, to Lieutenant Robert Kerr, previously of .[6]
Fate
Gibraltar Prize was decommissioned and sold on 22 January 1761 at Sheerness for £135.[1]
Notes and References
- Book: British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. Winfield, Rif . 2007 . London. 9781844157006.
- Web site: NMM, vessel ID 367511. Warship Histories, vol i. National Maritime Museum. 30 July 2011. dead. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041558/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf. 2 August 2011.
- Book: Appendix to Naval and military memoirs of Great Britain: from the year 1727, to the present time . J. Strachan of No. 67, Stand, and P. Hill, Edinburgh . Beatston, Robert . 1790 . 75.
- Book: Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain from the year 1660 to the present time . R Faulder, Bond Street . Charnock, John . 1798 . 342.
- News: Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth . The London Chronicle . February 22, 1757 . September 13, 2012 . 186, Vol. 2.
- Book: Miscellaneous correspondence, containing a variety of subjects, relative to natural and civil history, geography, mathematics, poetry, memoirs of monthly occurrences, catalogues of new books... . W. Owen, and the author . Martin, Benjamin . 1759 . 730.
