HMS Squirrel (1707)
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HMS Squirrel was designed by Richard Stacey, Master Shipwright of Woolwich. Her design was based on the standardize 20-gun sixth rates. After commissioning she was assigned to Home Waters then the Mediterranean. She took a privateer in 1710.[1] She was dismantled at Deptford with her timbers sent to Woolwich Dockyard for rebuilding as a 374-ton (bm). She was finally broken in 1749.[2]
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Name | HMS Squirrel |
Ordered | 26 March 1707 |
Builder | Royal Dockyard, Woolwich |
Launched | 29 December 1707 |
Commissioned | 1708 |
Out of service | April 1727 |
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General characteristics | |
Type | 24-gun Sixth Rate |
Tons burthen | 262+59⁄94 bm |
Length |
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Beam | 25 ft 0 in (7.6 m) for tonnage |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 8 in (3.3 m) |
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General characteristics As Rebuilt 1727 | |
Class and type | 20=gun, Sixth Rate |
Tons burthen | 37622/94 bm |
Length |
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Beam | 28 ft 5 in (8.66 m) maximum |
Depth of hold | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
Sail plan | ship-rigged |
Armament | 20 × 6-pdrs on upper deck |
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Squirrel was the fifth ship so named. The name had previously been used for a discovery vessel with Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1682 and lost in 1583.[3]