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SUFFOLK
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4th rate
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Built in 1739, Woolwich.
Broken up in 1765. |
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- 1740 Capt. Thomas DAVERS, In July he was sent with Sir Challoner OGLE's fleet to the West Indies. Their efforts to get out of the Channel are described below:-
- Extract of a letter from SUFFOLK in Torbay. September 5th. 1740.
- After another ineffectual Attempt to get out of the Channel, we are a third Time driven back, and are obliged to return to this Harbour. Our Departure from St. Helen's after the Lyon and Victory had run foul) was on the 23rd. of July; we had a Wind tolerably fair, but it being that Afternoon and the next Day Wednesday Weatherly, we got but a little West of this Place, when the Wind blowing very hard in our Teeth, obliged us to put in here. We arrived on the 26th., at 6 in the Afternoon. The Wind continuing W. and S. W. we remained until the 4th. of August when we weighed and sailed. Wind at N. E. as far as Bolt Head, next Day within 6 Leagues of the Lizard, tho' the Wind had changed to the W. The 6th. it blew so violently S. W. that there was no standing against it, so we returned again to Torbay. The Wind continuing S. and W. we lay till the 22nd, and then sailed with an easy Breeze from the East for two Days, but did not get up with the Lizard till the 25th. at 8 in the Morning, when suddenly there blew so rank a Storm from the S. that we wondered that the Admiral did not give the Signal for returning, but at 8 next day, the storm increasing, he was obliged to give way to Necessity, and we put in here for a 3d Time on the 26th.
- These Disappointments, which no human prudence can foresee, or prevent, have hitherto retarded this mighty fleet, which, with Merchant Ships, consists of 180 Sail; and when Admiral Balchen's and Lord Cathcart's Squadrons Join us, we shall Double that Number.
- The Fleet was sickly some Time, but is now in good Condition, and we have her in the Suffolk lost but one man out of 480
- On 6th. February 1742 SUFFOLK arrived at Spithead from Jamaica. There was news that major-General wentworth, with the forces under his command, was returned on the 29th. of November last, to Port Royal, having found it necessary to withdraw them from the Island of Cuba on account of sickness, which increasing greatly amongst them
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