From Wikipedia.
44-gun fifth rate frigate grounded on Looe Key on 5 February 1744 during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Ordered 22 December 1740 from Thomas Snelgrove to the design of the 1733 Establishment. It was the fourth Royal Navy ship of that name, named for Looe, Cornwall, England.
Completed 3 April 1742 at Deptford Dockyard. Commissioned January 1742.
124 feet long with 35.8 beam, 250 crew. Armament: Lower deck twenty 12-pdrs., Upped deck twenty 9 pdrs. and Quarterdeck six 6-pdrs.
Frist commander was Captain George Carnegie.
Along with HMS Deal Castle, went looking for privateers from Ponta Nova in 1742.
--CooterLooe
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