HMS Kingfisher

HMS Kingfisher was the second ship in the 14-gun Swan class of ship sloops, to which design 25 vessels were built in the 1760s and 1770s. She was launched on 13 July 1770 at Chatham Dockyard, and completed there on 21 November 1770. She took part in the American Revolutionary War, enforcing the blockade of the Delaware Bay, and served in the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, near Cape May, New Jersey. While under the temporary command of Lieutenant Hugh Christian, she was burnt by her own crew to avoid capture on 7 August 1778 in Narragansett Bay during the Battle of Rhode Island.

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KINGFISHER 1770 RMG J4867

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HMS Kingfisher 1770 bow

HMS 'Kingfisher', by Joseph Marshall LW SCMU 1864 0003 0002

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Three Decks page@		Wikidata
commons	image		KINGFISHER 1770 RMG J4867		Commons
commons	image		KINGFISHER 1770 RMG J4865		Commons
commons	image		KINGFISHER 1770 RMG J4866		Commons
commons	image		HMS Kingfisher 1770 bow		Commons
commons	image		HMS 'Kingfisher', by Joseph Marshall LW SCMU 1864 0003 0002		Commons