HMS Swallow
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HMS Swallow was a 10-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy that prior to her commissioning was briefly known as HMS Galgo. Launched in 1744, the ship sailed to North America in June, bringing news of the start of King George's War and capturing two merchant vessels. Serving off South Carolina, on 24 December Swallow was sailing from Charleston to New Providence when she was wrecked on the Bahama Banks. Returning to Charleston in the sloop Pelham, the Irish members of Swallow's crew planned a mutiny on 21 January 1745 to take the ship to St. Augustine, Florida, but were arrested before they could do so.
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