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HMS Aldborough (1743)

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Lowestoffe (1742); Aldborough (1743); Alderney (1743); Phoenix (1743); Triton (1745) RMG J6179.jpg
image_caption	Plan for the Aldborough
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	Great Britain
flag
name	HMS Aldborough
ordered	17 November 1741
builder	John Orkill, Liverpool
laid_down	6 January 1742
launched	16 March 1743
completed	By June 1743
commissioned	February 1743
fate	Sold out of service, Deptford dockyard, 28 November 1749
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	20-gun sixth-rate
tons_burthen	498 36/94 bm
length	*112 ft (gundeck)
*{{convert	91	ft	6	in	m	1	abbr	on}} (keel)
beam	32 ft
hold_depth	11 ft
sail_plan	ship-rigged
propulsion	Sail
complement	140
armament	20 × 9-pdrs

91 ft (keel)

'*HMS *Aldborough''''' was a 20-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1743 and in service in Atlantic and Caribbean waters until 1749.

Naval career

Commissioned in February 1743 under Captain John Pitman, Aldborough was launched in March as part of the British home fleet during the War of Jenkins' Ear. For two years she was assigned patrol and convoy duties from the English Channel to northern Scotland. Former Harvard College professor Isaac Greenwood served as ship's chaplain during this coastal service, from 1743 until his discharge from the Navy on 22 May 1744. From 1744 Aldborough was transferred to the British fleet stationed off South Carolina, protecting British colonies against the risk of Spanish attack. Her captain at this station was Carolinas fleet commander Ashby Utting, late of . However Utting died in January 1746 and Aldboroughs captaincy devolved to a more junior officer, Commander Thomas Innes.

In September 1747 the ship was reassigned to the Caribbean, where she remained until 1749. Service in the tropics having reduced her seaworthiness, she was paid off in July 1749 and returned to Deptford Dockyard for repairs. A naval survey in September of that year found that her condition was not salvageable. On 28 November she was sold out of service for £302.

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Colledge, Warlow 2010, p. 10
Leonard, David C.. (April 1981). "Harvard's First Science Professor: A Sketch of Isaac Greenwood's Life and Work". Harvard University.
May, W.E.. (January 1969). "Capt. Charles Hardy on the Carolina Station, 1742-1744". South Carolina Historical Society.
Winfield 2007, p.254

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