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
Showing posts with label Florida Keys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida Keys. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Cannons in Fort Came From British Shipwreck-- Part 2: Fort William Henry
The original Fort William Henry was built in 1755 during the French and Indian War and destroyed two years later after the French captured it.
A full-size replica fort was built on the same footprint as the original on the Adirondack village of Lake George. It opened in the summer of 1954. The new fort's owners wanted to obtain some Colonial-era cannons to display. Among them were nine cannons discovered a few years earlier off Looe Key in the Florida Keys.
Local newspapers reported the cannons were bought from Art McKee, a Florida treasure hunter who salvaged them after the Smithsonian Institution recovered other artifacts from Looe Key, named after the British ship thought to have sunk there along with a captured Spanish ship it was escorting..
--Brock-Perry
A full-size replica fort was built on the same footprint as the original on the Adirondack village of Lake George. It opened in the summer of 1954. The new fort's owners wanted to obtain some Colonial-era cannons to display. Among them were nine cannons discovered a few years earlier off Looe Key in the Florida Keys.
Local newspapers reported the cannons were bought from Art McKee, a Florida treasure hunter who salvaged them after the Smithsonian Institution recovered other artifacts from Looe Key, named after the British ship thought to have sunk there along with a captured Spanish ship it was escorting..
--Brock-Perry
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Cannons in Fort Came from a Sunken British Ship-- Part 1: HMS Looe
March 30, 2016, Chicago Tribune "Project confirms N.Y. fort guns from Fla. shipwreck" by Chris Carola.
Research has determined that nine cannons displayed for the past 60 years at a re-created French and Indian War fort in upstate New York were originally aboard a British warship that sank in the Florida Keys in the 18th century.
Joseph Zarzynski said a study of all 68 cannons at Fort William Henry found that some, if not all, of the nine iron cannons likely came from the HMS Looe, which sank after hitting a reef in 1744.
He said that when the fort originally opened in 1954 on the southern end of Lake George that some of the cannons came from a British shipwreck in the Keys. The HMS Looe was a 44-gun frigate built in England in 1741.
--DaLooeCoot
Research has determined that nine cannons displayed for the past 60 years at a re-created French and Indian War fort in upstate New York were originally aboard a British warship that sank in the Florida Keys in the 18th century.
Joseph Zarzynski said a study of all 68 cannons at Fort William Henry found that some, if not all, of the nine iron cannons likely came from the HMS Looe, which sank after hitting a reef in 1744.
He said that when the fort originally opened in 1954 on the southern end of Lake George that some of the cannons came from a British shipwreck in the Keys. The HMS Looe was a 44-gun frigate built in England in 1741.
--DaLooeCoot
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