Vanguard HMS
3rd Rate. Built by Ewer at east Cowes in 1748.
Length 160ft. Beam 45ft.70 guns.
Commissioned March 1748 under Capt John Hamilton as guard ship for Plymouth (with 140 men only).
In 1752 under Capt Hyde Parker; sailed April 1752 with troops to Minorca; paid off Nov 1752.
Recommissioned Jan 1753 under Capt Frederick Rogers; refitted as guard ship for Plymouth.
In 1754 under Capt. John Byron; sailed with troops to Minorca; fitted for Channel service by AO 6 Nov 1754; with Boscawen’s squadron in America 1755; to Western squadron 1756.
fitted for service (by AO 8 march 1757, for £12,775) Feb- Nov 1757.
Recommissioned Sept 1757 under Capt. Robert Swanson (-1762); sailed for America 8 April 1758; at Louisbourg 1758; at Quebec 1759; Broad Pendant 1760; sailed for North America 10 March 1760; destruction of 36 gun La Pomone and 32-gun L’Atalante in the St Lawrence 16 May 1760; off Le Havre 1761; sailed for the Leeward Islands 18 October 1761;
Martinique operation 7 Jan- 10 Feb 1762.
In Oct 1762 under Capt. John Carter Allen as Swanton’s flagship, with Rodney’s squadron in the Leeward Islands; paid off march 1764.
Surveyed July 1765, no repair reported.
Sold at Portsmouth (for £895) 13 April 1774.
British Warships in the Age of Sail - Rif Winfield.
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