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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}}{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}Three, and possibly four, vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Placentia, after locations in Newfoundland, including Placentia Bay and the town of Placentia: - {{HMS|Placentia|1775}} was a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1775 and wrecked, with the loss of two lives, on 14 September 1775.[1]
- A cutter HMS Placentia apparently served between 1777 and 1779.[2]
- {{HMS|Placentia|1779}} was a 14-gun sloop, purchased in 1780 and wrecked on 10 September 1782 on Newfoundland with no survivors.[3] Earlier that year Lieutenant Charles Anderson had captured two American schooners, Lord Sterling and Penguin, each of eight guns.[4]
- {{HMS|Placentia|1789}} was a minimally armed sloop launched in 1789, name vessel of her two-vessel class, that her crew abandoned in a sinking state on 8 May 1794 off Marticot Island, Newfoundland.[5]
Citations1. ^Hepper (1994), p.49. 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_iii.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 373438|work=Warship Histories, vol iii|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 3. ^Hepper (1994), p.70. 4. ^Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal (1783), Vol. 6, p.368. 5. ^Hepper (1994), p.76.
References- {{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|authorlink=|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}
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