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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Bridgewater | Ship ordered=10 June 1740 | Ship builder=John Pearson, King's Lynn | Ship laid down=22 January 1740 | Ship launched=11 December 1740 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=July 1740 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship completed=5 April 1741 | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=Wrecked in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, 18 September 1743 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | {{fraction>35|94}} (bm) | 106|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck)- {{convert|87|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (keel)
| Ship draught= | 30|ft|7.5|in|m|abbr=on}} | 9|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship | Ship complement=140 | Ship armament=*20 guns comprising- Gun deck: 20 × 9-pounder cannon
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}} | HMS Bridgewater was a sixth-rate 20-gun ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1740 and wrecked in 1743. She was commissioned in August 1740 under Captain Robert Pett for service in the North Sea and English Channel.[1] In December 1741 Bridgewater was assigned to coastal duties off Newfoundland under Captain Frederick Rogers. On Christmas Day 1742 she engaged and captured an 18-gun privateer, Santa Rita, off the Scilly Isles. A month later she received her third captain, William Fielding, and returned to her Newfoundland patrol.[1] Bridgewater was wrecked in St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland on 18 September 1743.[1]Notes1. ^1 2 Winfield 2007, p.252
References{{refbegin}}- {{cite book | last = Winfield| first = Rif|title = British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates | publisher = Seaforth| year = 2007|isbn=9781844157006}}
{{refend}}{{UK-mil-ship-stub}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bridgewater}} 3 : 1740 ships|Sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy|Maritime incidents in 1743 |