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state, that after the loss of 31 ships and vessels*, an injury, however, wonder-fully trivial when compared with that of the enemy, the British navy had in-creased,
* List of the Ships and Vessels belonging to the British Navy, that were either lost, destroyed, or captured
by the Enemy, during the War.
Ships’ Names.
Force.
Year.
Circumstances of their Loss, See.
Ramillies
90
1760
Lost on the Bolt head
Prince George
90
17-58
Burnt going to the Mediterranean
Invincible
74
17-58
Lost near St. Helen’s
Resolution
74
1759
Lost on the Fore Bank in pursuit of the enemy
Conqueror
70
1760
Lost on St. Nicholas island near Plymouth
Marlborough
70
1762 1
L Foundered on their passage from the Havanna
Temple
70
1762 j
i r 6
Mars
64
1755
Lost going into the harbour of Halifax
Essex
64
1759
Lost on the Fore Bank in pursuit of the enemy
Due d’Aquitaine
64
1761
Foundered off Pondicherry
Raisonnable
64
1762
Lost at Martinico
Warwick
60
1756
Taken in the West Indies
Sunderland
60
1761
Foundered off Pondicherry
Tilbury
60
1757
Lost on the rocks near Louisburg
Cumberland
56
1760
Lost near Goa in the East Indies
Greenwich
50
1757
Taken in the West Indies
Litchfield
50
1758
Lost on the coast of Africa
Harwich
50
1760
Lost in the West Indies
Newcastle
50
1761
Wrecked near Pondicherry
Chesterfield
40
1762
Lost in the old streights of Bahama
South Sea Castle
40
1762
Lo r t at Manilla
Humber
40
1762
Lost on the Happesbcrough Sands
Griifin
28
1760
Lost on the island of Barbuda
Lyme
28
1760
Lost in the North Sea
Lowestoffe
28
1760
Lost in the river St. Lawrence
Hussar
28
1762
Lost in the West Indies
Tartar’s Prize
24 »
1759
Sprung a plank in the Mediterranean
Mermaid
24
1760
Lost near Bahama
Elandford
CO
1755
Taken off Brest, but afterwards restored
Winchelsea
20
1758
Taken conveying the South Carolina fieet; soon after retaken
Kurus
20
1760
Lost in the river St. Lawrence
Penguin
20
1760
Taken on the coast of Portugal, afterwards retaken
Queenborough
20
1761
Wrecked near Pondicherry
Bridgewater
20
1753 j
1 Run ashore at Fort St. David, in the East Indies, to prevent
Triton
20
1758 !
\ their falling into the enemy’s hands •
Biddeford
20
1762
Lost on the Hazeborough Sands
Grammont
18
1762
Taken in the harbour of St. John, Newfoundland
Scorpion
16
1762
Lost in the Irish Sea
Pheasant
U)
1761
Foundered in the Channel
Peregrine
16
1762
Foundered on her voyage to the West Indies