Name HMS Scorpion Laid down April 1745 Construction started April 1745 | Ordered 5 April 1745 Commissioned June 1746 Launched 8 July 1746 | |
Builder James Wyatt and John Major, Bucklers Hard Completed 6 September 1746 at Portsmouth Dockyard | ||
HMS Scorpion was a 14-gun two-masted Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Wyatt and Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England and launched on 8 July 1746.
She foundered in the Irish Sea in September 1762.
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