HMS Swan (1767)

History
Class and type: Swan class ship sloop
Name: HMS Swan
Ordered: 18 January 1766
Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down: June 1766
Launched: 21 November 1767
Commissioned: February 1768
Fate: Sold September 1814
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 300 494 bm
Length:
  • 96 ft 5 in (29.4 m) (gundeck)
  • 78 ft 10 in (24.0 m) (keel)
Beam: 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Complement: 125
Armament:
  • 14 × 6-pounder guns;
  • 2 more added ca. 1780
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Swan.

HMS Swan was the lead 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 21 November 1767. She bore the name HMS Explosion between 1779 and 1783 whilst being used as a fireship. She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War before being laid up in 1801; she was sold for disposal in 1814.

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