HMS Antigua

HMS Antigua has been the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, named after the Caribbean island of Antigua:

HMS Antigua (1757) was a 14-gun brig-sloop that had formerly served as a privateer. She was purchased in 1757 and sold in 1763.

HMS Antigua (1779) was a 14-gun sloop that entered service in 1779 and was sold in 1782.

HMS Antigua (1780) was a brig that entered service in 1780 and that the French captured in May 1781. She was under the command of Lieutenant John Hutt.

HMS Antigua (1804) was the former French privateer Egyptienne. Captured in 1804, she served as a prison ship until scrapped in 1816.

HMS Antigua (K501) was a Colony-class frigate laid down as the United States Navy Tacoma-class patrol frigate USS Hamond (PF-73). She was launched in 1943, and delivered to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in 1944. She was returned to the United States Navy in 1946 and scrapped in 1947.

Citations

References

Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3

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HMS Antigua (1757)

The first HMS Antigua was a 14-gun brig-sloop that served in the British Royal Navy from 1757 to 1763.

Antigua had served as a privateer before the Royal Navy purchased her on 4 June 1757. She was sold in the West Indies on 13 August 1763.

References

Colledge, J.J. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy From the Fifteenth Century to the Present. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87021-652-X.

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HMS Antigua (1779)

HMS Antigua was a 14-gun sloop that served in the British Royal Navy from 1779 to 1792. In contemporary records she is sometimes referred to as "His Majesty's armed brig Antigua".

American Revolutionary War

Between 1780 and 1782 she was under the command of Lieutenant Robert Barton, and captured several prizes.

At some point she captured the American privateer Nancy.

On 25 December 1780 she captured two Dutch ships, the Vrouw Elizabeth and Stad Workum.

On 9 August 1781 she retook the French privateer Defiance.

On 23 December 1781 she was in company with Squirrel, Dunkirk, and Cambridge at the capture of the Dutch ship De Vrow Esther.

On 28 April 1782, Antigua and the cutter Viper brought into Waterford a French privateer lugger and her prize. The prize was a sloop that had been sailing from London to Cork with merchandise when the privateer took her.

Antigua was in service in August 1789.