![]() The unfortunate Loss of His Majesty's Ship Stirling Castle - after having been dismasted in the Great Hurricane Octr 6th 1780 - was wrecked near the Silver Keys, off the NE end of Island Hispaniola, by William Elliott and Valentine Green
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Name | Stirling Castle |
Ordered | 12 October 1768 |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down | October 1769 |
Launched | 28 June 1775 |
Fate | Wrecked, 5 October 1780 |
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Class and type | Worcester-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1377 21⁄94 (bm) |
Length | 159 ft (48 m) (gundeck) |
Beam | 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m) |
Depth of hold | 19 ft 10 in (6.05 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Stirling Castle was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Israel Pownoll and launched on 28 June 1775 at Chatham.[1]
She was wrecked on 5 October 1780 on the Silver Keys, off Cap François, off the coast of Cuba with the loss of most of her crew.[2] As the Massachusetts ship Aurora was sailing from Boston to Port-au-Prince she came upon the wreckage of Stirling Castle and was able to save a midshipman and four seamen.[3]
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