HMS Lion (1709 hoy)

HMS Lion (or Lyon) was a stores hoy launched in 1709. She was wrecked at Port Isaac on 26 August 1752.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Lion.

Admiralty plan of the hoy Lyon, 1709,
History
UK
Name: HMS Lion (or Lyon)
Builder: Deptford Dockyard (M/Shipwright Joseph Allin)
Launched: April 1709
Fate: Wrecked 1752
General characteristics [1]
Type: Hoy
Tonnage: 107 ​92⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 63 ft 11 in (19.48 m) (overall)
  • 50 ft 9 in (15.5 m) (keel)
Beam: 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m)
Depth of hold: 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: sloop
Armament: 4 x 4-pounder guns + 4 x swivel guns

Lion was under the command of Samuel Wakerel, master. All of her crew was saved, as was some of her cargo of lumber.[2]

Notes
  1. Winfield (2008), pp.367.
  2. Hepper (1994), p. 39.

References
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.


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