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SUPERB
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3rd rate
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Built in 1736, Woolwich DY.
Broken up in 1757. |
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- 1740 Capt Hon. William HERVEY, one of the fleet employed in the Channel under Sir John NORRIS. He afterwards was ordered to accompany Sir Chaloner OGLE to the West Indies with reinforcements for Ad. VERNON but SUPERB, together with SHREWSBURY and the PRINCE OF ORANGE, were compelled by a violent storm in the Channel to put into Lisbon. SUPERB eventually sailed for the West Indies in February 1741.
- On his return he was driven into Kinsale by bad weather and wrote to the Admiralty that in lat. 33:20 long. 65, West. he had taken a Spanish ship called the CONFIANTE of 34 guns and 64 men, between 3 and 400 tons, which came from the Caraccas bound for the Canaries with Cocoa. When the CONFIANTE was searched at Kinsale it was found that she was partly ballasted with double pistoles, for large casks of them and a vast quantity of wrought plate were found in the ballast. The prize was valued at 200,000 pounds before this discovery.
- Capt. HERVEY, having treated his officers, particularly John HARDY, his 1st. lieutenant, with unmerited severity and the crew with a degree of cruelty bordering on barbarity, was put under arrest on his return to England and brought before a court martial held on board the ST. GEORGE at Spithead, Ad. CAVENDISH presiding, on Thursday 19 August 1742. He was found guilty of ill treatment and cruelty, cashiered, and rendered incapable of ever serving in the Royal Navy again. Lieut. HARDY, who went on to be commander of the DRAKE sloop in 1744 and who retired with the rank of rear-admiral in 1752, was honourably acquitted.
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