Name HMS Hazard Laid down 26 April 1744 Construction started 26 April 1744 | Ordered 4 April 1744 Commissioned November 1744 Launched 11 December 1744 | |
Builder John Buxton, Snr, Rotherhithe Completed 2 March 1745 at Deptford Dockyard | ||
HMS Hazard was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop launched in 1744. She was captured in November 1745 by Jacobite forces in Montrose harbour and was sailed to Dunkirk and was renamed Le Prince Charles.
In March 1746, the ship was carrying £13,000 in gold, arms and other supplies to Inverness, when she was intercepted and was chased by HMS Sheerness, which recaptured Le Prince Charles in the Kyle of Tongue on 26 March.
Reverting to her previous name Hazard, she was sold in 1749.
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