HMS Fox (1740)

HMS Fox's sister ship Experiment (L) takes the French ship Telemaque (R)
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Fox
Namesake	Fox
Ordered	13 August 1739
Builder	John Buxton Sr, Rotherhithe
Cost	£3,771.5
Laid down	16 September 1739
Launched	1 May 1740
Completed	27 June 1740
Commissioned	April 1740
Fate	Lost in a gale, 1745
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	44018⁄94 (bm)
Length	106 ft 8 in (32.5 m) (gundeck) 87 ft 11+1⁄8 in (26.8 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 8+1⁄8 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	140
Armament	Gundeck: 20 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Fox was a 20-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was constructed at Rotherhithe by John Buxton senior, and launched in 1740. Fox was part of the 1733 Establishment built in response to the upcoming War of the Austrian Succession and spent the majority of her career patrolling for privateers and smaller hostile craft, and protecting convoys. She was active during the Jacobite rising of 1745, contributing troops at the Battle of Prestonpans and protecting the advancing army and supplies of John Cope, before succumbing to a storm off Dunbar on 14 November 1745.