![]() HMS Fox's sister ship Experiment (L) takes the French ship Telemaque (R)
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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 |
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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.